Lucia Peniston's Staging Area

I ran the 5K race last year, mostly because it starts right outside my place.
The folks that put this together are mostly volunteers and I feel bad if this is going to be a criticism, however maybe they will improve from this.

This year I signed up for the 10K.
Despite reaching out many many times for my race bid, number one, they will not mail it to you.
Secondly, they will email you with very little details of how to get your race number until just a few days maybe two days prior.

Then I got a rude email response, “You apparently don’t read my emails.” When they never send any information like times to pick it up etc.

Then a day or so prior to race, they send instructions, as follows:
There is a narrow window of time (the day prior to race 2pm to 7pm and race day 6 am to 730 am)

I tried to go on Friday earlier as I work from noon til nighttime… the woman with the scornful face told me they don’t have it, then shut the door behind me.

I get home late on Friday from work (1 am) then get up at 6 am to rush over there before 730 am, which was a near miss for me. So I was already so very tired and fatigued when I could have slept a little more.

On race day, after finishing, picking up my t-shirt, the woman asks me if I got one already as if I am going to steal a second shirt, I just ran the race and I am wearing shorts and a run tank where and how would I have a shirt to hide?
(I wanted to tell her no, and keep the ugly shirt.)

Note: they don’t tell you that the race route no longer goes through the military ship base, until you already signed up. This was a major reason I signed up for the 10K.

Overall, I thought the band was great and I thank the volunteers handing out water. But unless changes are made to improve, I really don’t want to waste my am. Probably won’t sign up again.