Watching Ryan Run the Beijing Olympic Marathon
August 14th, 2008
If you are planning on watching Ryan Hall run the Olympic Marathon in person, or are just curious where the course goes, the Beijing Olympic Marathon Course Map below shows the route that begins at Tian’anmen Square and ends in the National Stadium or “Bird’s Nest.”
Screen version: Beijing Olympic Marathon Course Map (JPG)
Printable version: Beijing Olympic Marathon Course Map (PDF)
If you won’t find yourself in China on August 24th at 7:30am, you can watch it on the West Coast on Saturday, August 23rd at 6:30pm (PST) on NBC. The marathon broadcast will be live on the East Coast (coverage begins at 7:30pm EST) and delayed a couple hours in the West. Beijing is 15 hours ahead of the West Coast, which means Ryan will actually be running at 4:30pm local Big Bear Lake time.
Local Big Bear fans have a few different ways to catch Ryan’s Olympic Marathon debut: Residents with Charter cable can watch the delayed KNBC feed as mentioned above on Channel 4 (104.2 in HD or 784 on Digital Service) beginning at 6:30pm PST. Satellite subscribers can pick up the live East Coast WNBC feed beginning at 4:30pm PST (Channel 241 on Dish or 82 on DirecTV). There will be a gathering at the Convention Center in Big Bear City that will watch the delayed feed at 6:30pm with doors opening at 2pm. Sandy’s Sports Restaurant will show the live East Coast feed at 4:30pm. Radio station KBHR will also be broadcasting reports live from Beijing via Mayor Rick Herrick.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:32 am
Hey, great site! I’d vote for ya!
August 21st, 2008 at 6:37 am
Randy,
Thanks for the info. It should be exciting!
Steve
August 21st, 2008 at 9:06 am
Dear Mr. Putz,
However I don’t have a vote you have my best wishes on the following elections. The school board would have a valuable gain if you were to come on aboard.
Carlos Capurro
August 21st, 2008 at 10:35 am
Nice work bro.
SChool board….RIGHT ON.
Let us know how we can help.
Paul and Karen
August 21st, 2008 at 11:32 am
Thank you for the added information, Our two kids on the cross country team have to work and help with the convention center program. Its getting very exciting just thinking about the marathon. We pray he stays in good health.
Thank you Cathy Fulton
August 21st, 2008 at 2:51 pm
We appreciate your taking the time to do this. Our family will all be watching from here in the mountains of Utah! Thanks, Randy…and good luck on joining the school board.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Thank you so much for giving the information in such a complete and simple way.
The school district and students would greatly benifit from your service on the School Board. You have my full support, Loren
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Thank you for the great information. Go Ryan!
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Thank you so much for this information!!! We have waited so long for this day to come and are sending our prayers and strength to Ryan!!
The Wormsbecker Family
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 am
Why aren’t you showing the live feed at the convention center? Most of us will know the results when you show the tape delayed feed. Out of all the olympic events none of which we on the west coast have been able to watch live, this is the one I hoped we would.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:50 am
Thank’s so much for the info.
Run Ryan Run!
Our prayers are with you!
August 24th, 2008 at 4:02 am
hello,
thanks for providing a map. tried many different ways on official olympics site (beijing2008.cn) and had no success. glad you were able to ferret it out and share (found you through google).