Valerie Moore's Staging Area

Two things I was disappointed in however were the limited restrooms along the way and people at the water table not even knowing when the next one is (i know I should have mentally remembered what mile markers they were at but it would have helped if someone could have told me so I am partly to blame) and secondly the corral setup; when I originally signed up only the last corral was available several weeks before the race I asked about this and they said to talk to the people at the expo who could help me out. The expo told me they were not being strict about the corrals and I could just move up to the second one (even though my bib color did not match). On race day I tried to start in the second corral but got yelled at and told me that I needed to wait for my colored group even after I told them I was trying to pace with 3:33. This definitely threw off my plan and made it hard to keep an even pace so I either wish the expo just told me I couldn’t so I at least would be mentally prepared with the splits needed or that the people at the start were on the same page. Besides those two negatives the race course overall is really fast and the weather was definitely ideal for running a PR. The medals were really awesome too! Loved the design this year.