Austin Pierce's Staging Area

Please don’t run this unless you care about the wine afterwards. Event is poorly run taking 45 mins to sign in (causing most runners to start late – I got there 40 mins before and still didn’t start on time because of the poor setup. I was actually towards the middle of the crowd so feel bad for any half marathoners that were towards the race time limit of 3:30 hours. There were also no t-shirts left when I finally checked in around 7am – not sure how that happens.

The race is also long for the 10k (clocked total mileage at 6.82 after a .1 mile walk after the finish line), but I’ve heard others complain that it is too short for the half. I feel like the one prerequisite to running an official 5k, 10k, etc. is to have the mileage marked accurately. I’m just going off my app time for the 10k as I can’t use the gun time (the race started late) and the net time doesn’t exist (despite the waiting for a bib for 45 mins).

Lastly, the wine festival after was fine, but you can’t grab any wine until 9am. I had somewhere to be at noon, so when I finished around 8, I had to wait an hour to just get a couple glasses. Not worth it in my opinion.

Different course than it typically is (didn’t know since it was first time running). Was well produced and tons of runners. Hardest thing was going uphill both ways and trying to pass hordes of people in the beginning of the race.