Not a lot of 5ks where you can get in some good hill work. This one certainly had two or three nice ones. Temps are rough this time of year, … MORE
Not a lot of 5ks where you can get in some good hill work. This one certainly had two or three nice ones. Temps are rough this time of year, but the course has some gorgeous natural scenery of the Atkins-Johnson Farm and Museum and the sunflower field and cemetery next to it. This is a small-ish race and the volunteers were lovely. There was an issue with the guy at the top of the hill directing all the people walking one direction and all the people running the other. We’re in the same race, doing the same course, we’re just taking ascending this hill differently. When we brought up we’re pretty sure that’s not correct he just repeated himself. I had never done this course so I thought hey, he’s the pro, ok….then I came up massively short on distance so I had to go back and finish a loop. All that should have been worked out prior to race day. I took it in stride (haha?) but I did hear from one of the other misdirected participants that she wouldn’t be back because “this is amateur here.” Well, I wouldn’t let one misinformed volunteer ruin the whole thing for me, personally. With so many people misdirected, there was no “just follow the people in front of you” because it really seemed a 60/40 split when I got to that point, and I was in no chance of not making appropriate time or anything like that, so not like I was getting kicked off the course. My recommendation if you’ve never been there is to memorize the course ahead of time and just follow that first and foremost. It’s a fun course and I imagine if I’d done it all in the proper order it would have been even better. I’m confident next year I’ll be giving higher marks for production.
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Great training race with better view
Not a lot of 5ks where you can get in some good hill work. This one certainly had two or three nice ones. Temps are rough this time of year, … MORE
Not a lot of 5ks where you can get in some good hill work. This one certainly had two or three nice ones. Temps are rough this time of year, but the course has some gorgeous natural scenery of the Atkins-Johnson Farm and Museum and the sunflower field and cemetery next to it. This is a small-ish race and the volunteers were lovely. There was an issue with the guy at the top of the hill directing all the people walking one direction and all the people running the other. We’re in the same race, doing the same course, we’re just taking ascending this hill differently. When we brought up we’re pretty sure that’s not correct he just repeated himself. I had never done this course so I thought hey, he’s the pro, ok….then I came up massively short on distance so I had to go back and finish a loop. All that should have been worked out prior to race day. I took it in stride (haha?) but I did hear from one of the other misdirected participants that she wouldn’t be back because “this is amateur here.” Well, I wouldn’t let one misinformed volunteer ruin the whole thing for me, personally. With so many people misdirected, there was no “just follow the people in front of you” because it really seemed a 60/40 split when I got to that point, and I was in no chance of not making appropriate time or anything like that, so not like I was getting kicked off the course. My recommendation if you’ve never been there is to memorize the course ahead of time and just follow that first and foremost. It’s a fun course and I imagine if I’d done it all in the proper order it would have been even better. I’m confident next year I’ll be giving higher marks for production.