Carolin Paidoussis's Staging Area

Communication could have been better but this is an extremely small race – there were only 18 of us for the half. Many more were registered for the full but still, this is small. The race is all downhill on a gravel path except for a small stretch of pavement, maybe a mile long. It’s steep, which I was not prepared for – challenging to control my speed and watch my feet. The altitude also contributed to the challenge but honestly I can say I enjoyed it – it was beautiful. As they like to say, this definitely ain’t no pansy ass city race.

Race was well organized with lots of crowd support and plenty of water stations. Course would through historic Savannah with a lap through the Savannah Bananas baseball field. Savannah is laid out in Squares and the course took us past most of the 14. Beautiful tree-lined streets dripping with Spanish moss made for excellent sun cover. While the food post-race was nothing to brag about, I did enjoy the live music and beer. Would definitely recommend!

Challenging race with endless hills. Not terribly scenic but good course support and fun after party. Recommend if you like a good challenge.

This is a small race benefiting a local charity. The course wound through historic Mobile and was scenic and enjoyable- fantastic course support! The medals are hand made by the residents of First Light which is super sweet. Many of the residents were handing out medals at the finish line. The after party consisted of sandwiches, ice cream and beer. I chose this race as part of a back to back with a half in Pensacola. There was an option to get an additional medal for running the back to back – it was a hand made plaque which was really cute and on the back was a picture of the First Light resident who made it.

Well organized, good food, fun after party. Course went from seaside, to trail with a trip through the salt marsh…interesting! Good course support even in the rain.

This was a beautiful seaside course which was primarily flat. The coastal town was charming with its beach themed shops and ice cream parlors.

No real swag to speak of here and no real after party. There were very few on course spectators and unfortunately, in my opinion, not enough water stops. Be sure to bring your own water! The beautiful scenery more than made up for this though and I would recommend this race.

The course was a combination of trail and pavement with the trail portion being the most challenging part. Beautiful winding course through tree covered roadways with rolling hills. Water stops every mile and a half was sufficient spacing but there were NO BATHROOMS ANYWHERE! It’s held in a National Park so maybe there were limitations on where they could place Port-a potty‘s, but there was literally not a single bathroom that I saw on the entire course beyond the start line. There might have been one at one turnaround point but even the volunteer at the water stop there did not know if there was a restroom nearby, so we didn’t venture out to check. Small field so possibility of placing In your age group is very possible even if you are on the slower side like myself.