Jessica Grundy's Staging Area

The organization was terrible, the start and finish are in different places so either you leave your house/hotel with the outfit you will run on (it was super cold in the morning and extremely hot during and after the race) or you have to pay extra to have your stuff carried to the finish line, but the truck left quite early and there were no signs where to find it…. I saw some fellow runners having to run with their plastic bags I cant even imagine how tough that was beacuse they couldn’t find the truck or didn’t get there on time.

But the WORST part for me was that there was not a single instruction/sign or person to guide you to the starting line it was total chaos. For me it meant that when I reached the starting line the race had started a long time ago, my pace group was nowhere to be found or maybe long gone and it was a chaotic and emotionless start. Fair to say that I was in the area more than 1 hour before the start and still I didn’t make it on time.

There were 0 toilets in all the area before the starting line so there were people peeing all over.

Because of the chaos all paces were mixed up and it was very hard to find a rhythm because you had to stop continuously or zigzag to pass other runners.

The beginning of the race at the bridge was the only fun part!!! And Im glad there is something positive to say about this race.

There was almost nobody cheering on the streets which was adding to the extremely dull scenery, after the bridge there is nothing interesting about the course.

On the positive side the water stations were super frequent and the volunteers were very nice.

For me was one of my worse times in the half, it was too hot (which is nobody’s fault) and because of everything I just wrote it was a weird mood for me and everyone around me.

Having run in many countries, this race scores the lowest in my personal ranking