This small town race is absolutely gorgeous. You run from the Berry College Main Campus to the Mountain Campus and back. There is a reason it is called the mountain … MORE
This small town race is absolutely gorgeous. You run from the Berry College Main Campus to the Mountain Campus and back. There is a reason it is called the mountain campus. And the elevation guide on the webpage is not accurate. The steep hills came a mile sooner than it portrayed.
Once on the mountain campus, there are three little out and backs to do, which gets kind of boring. But the entire race is closed traffic, which is nice. And running through the forest is just amazing. Definitely a challenging course.
Water stations are plentiful- there is one almost every two miles or so.
The race does a t-shirt reveal the day before the race…. I am not sure why, nothing special. And I think a lot of the stuff on the shirt requires you to be affiliated with Berry College to understand. But whatever. The medal is nice enough.
Post race was chaotic. I crossed the finish line into a crowd of people who were already complete and just hanging out. I had to walk through them and go to the medal station to get my finisher medal. I didn’t stick around for the awards because I ran poorly, but some of the comments on Facebook were not happy because they were given a water bottle for age group awards.
Maybe if I lived in the area, i would run it again. But if I am travelling to GA for a race again, there are a bunch of others I would like to try first.
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This small town race is absolutely gorgeous. You run from the Berry College Main Campus to the Mountain Campus and back. There is a reason it is called the mountain … MORE
This small town race is absolutely gorgeous. You run from the Berry College Main Campus to the Mountain Campus and back. There is a reason it is called the mountain campus. And the elevation guide on the webpage is not accurate. The steep hills came a mile sooner than it portrayed.
Once on the mountain campus, there are three little out and backs to do, which gets kind of boring. But the entire race is closed traffic, which is nice. And running through the forest is just amazing. Definitely a challenging course.
Water stations are plentiful- there is one almost every two miles or so.
The race does a t-shirt reveal the day before the race…. I am not sure why, nothing special. And I think a lot of the stuff on the shirt requires you to be affiliated with Berry College to understand. But whatever. The medal is nice enough.
Post race was chaotic. I crossed the finish line into a crowd of people who were already complete and just hanging out. I had to walk through them and go to the medal station to get my finisher medal. I didn’t stick around for the awards because I ran poorly, but some of the comments on Facebook were not happy because they were given a water bottle for age group awards.
Maybe if I lived in the area, i would run it again. But if I am travelling to GA for a race again, there are a bunch of others I would like to try first.
The view from the back of the pack
What a great event. Straight line winds wreaked havoc on the campus just 18 hours prior to the event. By start time, the course was cleared and ready for the … MORE
What a great event. Straight line winds wreaked havoc on the campus just 18 hours prior to the event. By start time, the course was cleared and ready for the runners. Great route, although I would prefer to do the sunny/exposed trail going outbound when it’s cold, and the shaded road on the return when it’s warm. Anyways, great volunteers and race production. Would travel from Houston again to participate. It’s also very nice to see that everything isn’t shut down for those runners who use their full 4 hours.
Lovely, relatively easy run
-Beautiful, peaceful run throughout the Berry College campus -No cars to pollute the air that you're running in -Lots of aid stations with water along the way (and 2 with … MORE
-Beautiful, peaceful run throughout the Berry College campus
-No cars to pollute the air that you’re running in
-Lots of aid stations with water along the way (and 2 with GU gels)
– Nice port-a-potties in several locations along the course
– We saw deer towards the end
– Fairly easy, mostly flat course with some slight elevations mid-race
– Great after-race snack stations with multiple flavors of cold PowerAde, trail mix, oranges, bagels, clementines
Close to perfect
I can’t think of a reason not to run this race. The weather was perfect, and the scenery is gorgeous. Parking is easy and plentiful, but don’t expect much in … MORE
I can’t think of a reason not to run this race. The weather was perfect, and the scenery is gorgeous. Parking is easy and plentiful, but don’t expect much in the way of an expo/swag.
Beautiful course!
This course doesn't get enough PR. This is maybe one of the most beautiful courses that aren't in a national park, along the beach, or on top of a mountain. … MORE
This course doesn’t get enough PR. This is maybe one of the most beautiful courses that aren’t in a national park, along the beach, or on top of a mountain. This is a far better course than Run the Bluegrass, which is listed as a bucket list or must-do list race on many websites.
The parking for this race is fine, plenty of space, but you do have to walk a couple of minutes to the start line. You run through the college campus at the finish and it’s a beautiful campus.
Race day packet pickup was easy, indoors, and quick. There isn’t much in the way of swag that is better or worse than any other race, but there are INDOOR bathrooms and a warm place to wait indoors while you wait for the race to start. It’s a lobby of a student center or something, but plenty of space.
The course itself is not terribly difficult but it isn’t the easiest course either. It’s got a few hills, is on gravel and paved, but I noticed these less given the beauty of the course.
There are aid stations on the course, AND porta poddies, which isn’t as common if you aren’t at the start/finish line. I’ve done this course twice and the second time the course and organization were FAR better than the first time. It wasn’t bad the first time, but it was extraordinary the second time around, a few years later, in March 2020 just a few days before the Covid shutdown.
Beautiful race! Spring time in GA!
Great course because there is NO traffic. Entire race was on closed campus roads. Perfect size event. Didn’t have to park far away, hotels were not full. Easy to find … MORE
Great course because there is NO traffic. Entire race was on closed campus roads. Perfect size event. Didn’t have to park far away, hotels were not full. Easy to find and get to. Very quiet run thru the countryside.