45TH NEW ORLEANS MARDI GRAS MARATHON
FEB. 1, 2009

Course Photo-Documentation

By running photographer Rodney Pygoya Chang
all photographs copyrighted 2009 by Rodney Chang

 

We leave the French Quarters by crossing Canal Street


 

 

 

Aid Station action

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mardi Gras faces and colors (green, yellow, purple)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Follow the arrows

 

 

 

 

 

Turn unto St. Charles Street

 

 

 

 

Waving greeter wearing home town NFL Saints t-shirt

 

 

 

 

Anybody for some Voo Doo BBQ?

 

 

 

Trolly riders await departure from their trolly stop.

 

 

 

Houston has a jazz restaurant in New Orleans.

 

 

 

 

View of church from other end of street

 

 

 

 

New Orleans Tourism building

 

 

 

I found New Orleans most interesting for the variety of architecture, maintaining its glorious past eras. The city is several hundred years old.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just had to try running on the railroad tracks too!

 

 

 

 

Many historic residences with classical columns

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Passing the water cup like a racing batan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Many huge residences on St. Charles

 

 

 

5 mile marker on St. Charles, between Jefferson Ave. and  Napoleon Ave.

 

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