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With the government shutdown over, the Marine Corps Marathon will go on as scheduled next weekend.

Lt. Dave Green of the Arlington County Police Department first raised alarm bells to ARL Now when he said the October 27 race was “probably not going to happen” if the shutdown continued past Friday. The problem stemmed, in part, from the race’s course, which takes place on quite a bit of National Park Service property. Thankfully, the shutdown ended last night and now 30,000 runners can breathe a sigh of relief before

From the Marine Corps Marathon’s website:

A special thank you to MCM and MCM10K participants for your patience during the recent period of uncertainty. It is with great pleasure that the MCM can officially announce we are on. We are SO on. See you at the start line!