For the first time ever, a personalized DVD-video will be available for participants in the MCM.

More than 20 broadcast-quality digital video cameras will be used to film the race. You will see yourself from multiple angles at the:

--Starting Line (4 cameras)
--10 Kilometers (2 cameras)
--Half Marathon (2 cameras)
--20 Miles (2 cameras)
--Finish Line (4 cameras)

A professional camera crew will capture the beauty and majesty of this great "Marathon of the Monuments" through our nation's capital.

Race highlights will follow the marathon from the start at Arlington National Cemetery, through historic Georgetown, along the Rock Creek Parkway, past the Kennedy Center, around the Lincoln Memorial, down Constitution Avenue in front of the White House, along the Mall by the famous museums of the Smithsonian, circling the U.S. Capitol, passing the U.S. Supreme Court and Library of Congress, returning along Independence Avenue passing the Washington Monument, down along the Potomac River, by the Jefferson Memorial, over the bridge, around the Pentagon, and finally finishing at the famed Iwo Jima Monument.

Commemorate your achievement and share the experience with family and friends.

The runner's personal video clips, from five timing locations, will be edited into the storyline with the best race highlights and scenic video. Audio will include professional narration, music, and cheers from spectators.

Personal titles will display your name, race number, and split time when you appear in the video. Other MyMarathonDVDTM features include a personal digital finisher certificate displaying your official results and animated course map. DVD menus will allow you to play, pause, repeat, or jump to any selected location on the course. You can watch the entire 30- minute program or just your personal video clips.

MyMarathonDVD is $49.95, plus shipping and handling, and will be shipped 4 to 6 weeks after the race. Every runner is filmed and orders can be placed after the MCM.

See the Marine Corps Marathon Web site for further information.

Runners may also record a video personal message for inclusion on MyMarathonDVDTM. Free personal video messages will be filmed at the Marine Corps MarathonTM Runners' Expo and on Race Day at the finish area. Runners, friends, and family love this opportunity to record their thoughts and feelings on video.

This new state-of-the-art sports technology is the brainchild of Jim Barahal, a Waikiki Beach doctor who's been president of the Honolulu Marathon since 1987. As a former marathoner, he has developed a start-to-finish video chronicle of the runners' experience.

The technology was tested at the Ironman World Triathlon Championship in Hawaii during October, 2003, and at the Honolulu Marathon in December. MyMarathonDVD's first U.S. mainland application was at this year's City of Los Angeles Marathon on March 7 and installed again for the Boston Marathon on April 19.

Jim Barahal has performed as a standup comedian, worked as a radio commentator from the sidelines at University of Hawaii football games and served as physician on the set of CBS's "Magnum P.I." during its eight-year production in Honolulu. He also founded Waikiki Beach's only 24-hour hotel- based medical clinic for tourists as a moped-riding house call doctor. The Honolulu Marathon has tripled its size under the guidance of Barahal, with 65% of participants flying over from Japan on the event's sponsoring airline, JAL.