# @tracklandia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C0MbP4jr7wd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19844909-tracklandia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-11-28T15:06:57.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** TRACKLND (@tracklandia) — https://gondola.cc/tracklandia

## Caption

People get ready
There’s a train a comin’
Don’t need no baggage
You just get onboard

The Impressions’ gospel-style hit was written by Curtis Mayfield and released in 1965- 18 years before the first running of the California International Marathon, a race now famous for the throngs of believers rolling at high speeds down Fair Oaks Blvd under the rising sun, in search of PRs, OTQs and validation of long and lonely miles of training.

Absent the international stars that grace the world majors at the height of their dominance, CIM has become known for being a place where stars are born and for being arguably the deepest marathon in the world. During the 2020 Olympic Trials qualifying window, the CIM course felt the foot strikes of over twice as many Olympic Trials Qualifiers as Boston, Chicago and NYC combined. The spectacle of packs of 50 runners barreling over the rolling Sacramento hills at 2:17 and 2:40 pace, sharing bottles, encouraging one another through their spit-stained smiles is one of the wonders of the marathoning world.

It is The People’s Marathon.

This year, again as CIM marks the final date of the Olympic Trials qualifying window on December 4th, there are over 200 men and women who have either run under the OTQ marks of 2:18 and 2:37 or are within clear striking distance. There are more with bigger dreams whose names we’ll know soon enough. They’ll come from every corner of the country to the city first made famous by an untrained prospector striking gold in the nearby hills.

Faith is the key.
Open the doors and board them.
There’s hope for all among those loved the most.

The hills are rollin’ and dangerous to the quads early on, but navigated with the people smartly, there’s gold in them.

5 days until CIM 2023

All Aboard

#CIM40
#OTQfactory
#ThePeoplesMarathon

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