A marathon site: Please critique.

Hello:

Please critique the following site for the Cincinnati Heart Mini-Marathon:

http://www.cinheartminimarathon.org/

Before you do, let me give you a little background:

The American Heart Association has some very strict web guidelines to
follow.  For example, I had to use a tabled site instead of a framed site; I
had to have those very ugly looking graphics at the top of each page, along
with the official AHA logo.

All the graphics below that are ones I did.

I am particularly concerned about the "Race Results" page.  If you click on
any of the race results, it takes forever to download each page, because of
the size of HTML file.  The size is caused by all the table cells.  I've
been to a number of other marathon sites that have similar results pages,
and all of them seem to run into this same problem.  I thought about
breaking up the pages into smaller listings, but I figured the visitor would
get annoyed by that even more than the wait.  Another idea I thought of was
to change the list into a large, compressed graphic instead of a text
listing.  Unfortunately, that doesn't improve the size that much.

Thanks in advance.

-J

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