Sue Kim's Staging Area

The technical shirt for participants and the participant medals were decent quality. Course was well marked and volunteers were great. Start and finish areas were way too crowded, and no live tracking was offered, so as a spectator you had to know the pace of your runner and just ballpark where thy might be crossing what part of the route and hope you were right. The parking was ridiculous (in a bad way), and road closures and times were listed in an unhelpful chart that made it difficult for you to know if you’d have to detour 30498045 times or not. But the absolute worst part: post-race planning. Considering the massive amounts of time, money, and effort it takes to both take part in and actually organize an event this large, I find it extremely disappointing that there was NO SUPPORT in place for winners who are unable to be at the awards ceremonies to pick up their well-earned awards! Of all the things that need to be considered when planning an event like this, are you telling me that there was NO contingency plan / extremely minimal budgeting saved for mailing awards or arranging for a local pick up spot within a designated time period after the race is over? When a participant works hard, trains, PAYS for your event, AND happens to win, but cannot stay after the race, and when the money has already been spent to have medals created for all of the category and overall winners, it seems like it would be a no brainer to make sure those few people who would be winners at this event be able to receive their award after the race is over. There are plenty of races that are MUCH better prepared.