Daniel Huber's Staging Area

A Favorite race to run every year – this year with added trail hill in the middle. Well supported and run race, with lovely wooden carved medals. This year my first time pacing it, which made it more fun to help encourage folks on their first try.

I don’t like to be negative as races are hard to do and require a lot of time and volunteers. That being said, I was a little nervous with a vague and basic website, especially no emails prior to the race. Location was gorgeous, great day 32-40 degrees and mostly sunny, breezy but not bad. Run took us through town and through several nature preserves – I count birds on my runs and had 26 species plus a close look at a male coyote, good stuff.
It was a two loop race, on the second loop there were no people to guide on the turns. The aid stations were mostly unmanned, and the 2nd at mile 5 had no cups. They also had no safety pins until 20 minutes before race, which started 15 min. Late which not a big deal but it was chilly.
At the finish, I came across at a pr, no one was there, luckily the mat recorded my time. There was a case of water bottles and small bag of chips off to the side, no medals or promised extra swag for marathon finishers, or apology for this, but if we wanted we could take an extra T-shirt and last years medal, they stayed they would mail us medals, but you had to ask. No medical either.
If you want a gorgeous race to run with mostly no support and no swag, it was a fun one. Hope this is mostly objective and not sounding too bitter, just want to warn others.

Well organized and very large race – had a blast exploring a great sampling of the city – my first time in Indy. Multiple water stations and lots of different neighborhoods had music/candy/drinks etc – made for great energy on race day.

Newer race, great charity for a great cause. Ran this as a pacer but as a first timer. Well run for a smaller race and a lot of fun. Nice medal and shirts and great food at the end.

This was a small race but well run with fantastic volunteers and well staged aid stations. The scenery was amazing, only to be overshadowed by the hills – not really any flat areas, just up and down, but still fun. Great destination race.

This was a very well run race with great volunteers, aid stations swag and food at the end. I went for some winter sun and a cooler race but it was quite hot despite being february. Fun nonetheless

As a first time visitor to Richmond, the race did a great job taking us through different and unique parts of the city. A great charity, very well run with lots of volunteers who made you feel welcome – had a blast.

My first ever real trail race, and it kicked my but, but it was fun. Slowest ever mile going straight up the mountain. Well run, and made me want to try the longer when i have done more hill training

A very fun race with great scenery and well run, lots of great volunteers. Great venue at the end with good tunes and food, great fleece and medal as well.