This is a tiny race, which comes with its benefits and drawbacks. The benefits include the opportunity for an average runner to podium, easy parking, easy bathrooms, and limited crowds … MORE
This is a tiny race, which comes with its benefits and drawbacks. The benefits include the opportunity for an average runner to podium, easy parking, easy bathrooms, and limited crowds to maneuver around. The drawbacks are mostly the nonexistent spectators and the disorganization of the race. I think there were basically two people running the whole show, so naturally there were hiccups in terms of timing, the biggest of which was that there was no water at the finish. I think they were probably stressed and hurried moving the start mat to the finish and with two people just didn’t have time to also open the packages of water and food. Food was chips and bananas btw, which is obviously more than adequate for a 5k but might be disappointing to the 3hr half marathoners.
The scenery was gorgeous in spring and the race took place on a less crowded section of the Trinity trail, which was nice. The route did not match up with the race route posted on their website, but it was still lovely!
In summation, I think they should lose the tshirts and medals and charge $15 a person for a time-trial race. There’s not enough there to make it worth $30-$40.
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Flat, pretty, small
This is a tiny race, which comes with its benefits and drawbacks. The benefits include the opportunity for an average runner to podium, easy parking, easy bathrooms, and limited crowds … MORE
This is a tiny race, which comes with its benefits and drawbacks. The benefits include the opportunity for an average runner to podium, easy parking, easy bathrooms, and limited crowds to maneuver around. The drawbacks are mostly the nonexistent spectators and the disorganization of the race. I think there were basically two people running the whole show, so naturally there were hiccups in terms of timing, the biggest of which was that there was no water at the finish. I think they were probably stressed and hurried moving the start mat to the finish and with two people just didn’t have time to also open the packages of water and food. Food was chips and bananas btw, which is obviously more than adequate for a 5k but might be disappointing to the 3hr half marathoners.
The scenery was gorgeous in spring and the race took place on a less crowded section of the Trinity trail, which was nice. The route did not match up with the race route posted on their website, but it was still lovely!
In summation, I think they should lose the tshirts and medals and charge $15 a person for a time-trial race. There’s not enough there to make it worth $30-$40.
Very Happy , great production
arrive early for parking - side of the road fill-up fast and adjacent parking fills up too. , stay for the BBQ , Woodshed is great food. Production is on … MORE
arrive early for parking – side of the road fill-up fast and adjacent parking fills up too. , stay for the BBQ , Woodshed is great food. Production is on point. Easy course to navigate, 10K is out and back X 2. This year im doing the half. Stay for the BBQ. Great SWAG.
Back on the Trinity Trails
As I was running this Marathon one of the other runners asked me how many marathons I had run on this trail? The answer was 12. Cowtown, the Texas Double … MORE
As I was running this Marathon one of the other runners asked me how many marathons I had run on this trail? The answer was 12. Cowtown, the Texas Double and Texas Quad were some of them. So this is Fort Worth’s contribution to the Covid era. Almost every weekend there are marathons here. And one of the best groups to race with is Cox Running. They are professionals in their work. Great timing, medals, shirts, water stop are key marks to their race production. Great value in price and runners putting on races for runners.
Small race, nice views of FW
This was a nice, small race, which was great. There were ample water/Gatorade stations. Gatorade was not watered down as it usually is at races. Trinity trail provided some nice … MORE
This was a nice, small race, which was great. There were ample water/Gatorade stations. Gatorade was not watered down as it usually is at races. Trinity trail provided some nice views of FW. No real perks for the extra cost of the half. 5k runners received the same shirt/medal.