Ana Thorpe's Staging Area

I’m so glad I ran this race and I would do it again. It’s a great average difficulty route that will challenge you without totally killing you or make you hate the run. I thoroughly enjoyed the route as well as all the enthusiasm both from spectators and runners alike. For it being their second year I must say this race was very well organized and I don’t doubt it will become even better. The swag was no bueno though. The tech shirt isn’t the best quality (although they did give gender specific shirts, which was nice), the free filter Brita water they gave was awful (you could barely get any water out of it when you were dying of thirst after the race), I didn’t see any water bottles after the race, they ran out of chocolate muscle milks super quickly (who drinks vanilla anyway?), and the whole foods market sandwiches they gave out were essentially just two pieces of bread (I didn’t taste any PB or jelly in them (very disappointing). They also gave mason jars (I left mine there), which honestly aren’t much use to anyone.. Unless you wanted to stand in line for an hour to get beer…. They need better organization in the post race activities for sure. I would run it again though. It was a great preparation for the SF half I’m running soon.