I ran the Ft Lauderdale AIA marathon for the first time this year and generally can say I had a good experience.......EXCEPT the totally illogical decision by the race directors to host a children's race at the last mile of the marathon at approximately 10 a.m.!!! How RIDICULOUS.....myself and the runners finishing at the same time (4 hour finish time) had to bob and weave around hundreds of kids as they dashed toward the same finish line....with NO separate lane for the absolutely fatigued marathoners. I understand there were only 800 marathoners compared to the 3700 half-marathoners, but the decision by the directors as well as the fact that there were virtually no port-o-lets in the last 18 miles certainly left a bad taste in my mouth. My sisters, who are also runners but did not participate in this particular race, had to run in front of me and clear the way to make sure I didn't get tripped up by any of the children. I don't, of course, blame the children, but the directors on such a poor decision on the timing and location of the kid's run.