50 STATES MARATHON TOUR: CONNECTICUT (48/50)
2012 HARTFORD MARATHON: 5:53:12 (2012-10-13)
Photos:
https://www.facebook.com/730374053784599/photos/?tab=album&album_id=735563083265696
Race report:
http://bikingviking.net/listing/hartford-marathon-connecticut-2012-10-13/
Hartford Marathon Website:
http://www.hartfordmarathon.com
CONNECTICUT, USA
State capital: Hartford (125,000)
State population: 3,6 million
State nickname: The Constitution State
State bird: Robin
State mammal: Sperm whale
State motto:
He who transplanted sustains
Famous people from Connecticut:
Katherine Hepburn (actor), Harriet Beecher Stowe (author), Samuel Colt (inventor), John Brown (abolitionist), Charles Goodyear (inventor), John Pierpont Morgan (financier),
Fun facts about Connecticut:
The first telephone book ever issued contained only fifty names. The New Haven District Telephone Company published it in New Haven in February 1878.
More facts:
http://www.50states.com/facts/conn.htm#.U8Knhl5n7eY
Logistic:
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g33804-Hartford_Connecticut-Vacations.html
