Awaiting The Start

The corrals are filled now and awaiting the start. Looking forward (first picture), I'm not that far from the starting line, because corrals 3-16 were off on the street to the right. We would stand still until they passed. Looking backward (second picture), the crowd doesn't go very far down the road; that's because a large mass of runners (nearly half) were off on a road going off to the left.