Course was a nice reverse lollipop with a dogleg right. Surprisingly, no aid station at turn around, but it was cold and misty so I suppose they figured it wasn't … MORE
Course was a nice reverse lollipop with a dogleg right. Surprisingly, no aid station at turn around, but it was cold and misty so I suppose they figured it wasn’t needed. Nice solid medal and matching tech long-sleeve. Big SWAG for a 5k. Do this great course with a slow steady incline to the turnaround then a fast mile back before hitting one bowl under a railroad track for the only significant slow-down, then final 1/5th mile to the finish line for what could easily be a PR course.
Not much in the way of things to do at the finish line, so consider this 5k on par with other mid-sized town races. Between that, the water they’d prestacked for the finish in the middle of the front of the starting chute and the lack of aid station (warm gatorade maybe?) I couldn’t in all honesty give them 5 shoes for production, but three seemed too punitive. This isn’t Boston or Indy, after all, and it’s not a 20k person half-marathon. It’s a good fun race that’s a fast in-and-out, and it’s Thanksgiving morning, so how much after party does anyone really want. They did a great job of not giving us a ton of stuff we don’t want and keeping the price-to-swag ratio pretty favorable on a very fun course. Three shoes would have been equally inappropriate. Absolute do-again race, and for what it is it’s easily a 5-star race.
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Hard call on a fun race
Course was a nice reverse lollipop with a dogleg right. Surprisingly, no aid station at turn around, but it was cold and misty so I suppose they figured it wasn't … MORE
Course was a nice reverse lollipop with a dogleg right. Surprisingly, no aid station at turn around, but it was cold and misty so I suppose they figured it wasn’t needed. Nice solid medal and matching tech long-sleeve. Big SWAG for a 5k. Do this great course with a slow steady incline to the turnaround then a fast mile back before hitting one bowl under a railroad track for the only significant slow-down, then final 1/5th mile to the finish line for what could easily be a PR course.
Not much in the way of things to do at the finish line, so consider this 5k on par with other mid-sized town races. Between that, the water they’d prestacked for the finish in the middle of the front of the starting chute and the lack of aid station (warm gatorade maybe?) I couldn’t in all honesty give them 5 shoes for production, but three seemed too punitive. This isn’t Boston or Indy, after all, and it’s not a 20k person half-marathon. It’s a good fun race that’s a fast in-and-out, and it’s Thanksgiving morning, so how much after party does anyone really want. They did a great job of not giving us a ton of stuff we don’t want and keeping the price-to-swag ratio pretty favorable on a very fun course. Three shoes would have been equally inappropriate. Absolute do-again race, and for what it is it’s easily a 5-star race.