5/3 River Bank Run

5/3 River Bank Run

5/3 River Bank Run

( 6 reviews )
100% of reviewers recommend this race
  • Grand Rapids,
    Michigan,
    United States
  • May
  • Other
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

Eric

Chicago, Illinois, United States
26 18
2014
"Back Again - 3 years running"
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Eric 's thoughts:

This was my 3rd year running the Riverbank. We have friends in the Grand Rapids area and the GR also happens to have a great microbrew (Founders, Brewery Vivant, GRBC, etc.) scene that plays perfectly with this Saturday race. Registration is very cheap if you get it early. Expo is relatively small, but nice open area and venue with easy parking. Parking in the morning is also relatively pain-free - the 5/10k start first, so take that into consideration on your arrival time.

The course is one of my favorites - you follow the river down and back up. Once you get past the water treatment plant and strip club (not joking), you get onto a small access road that is mostly shaded and slightly downhill/flat. The bridge to cross the river gives you something to look forward to and has quite a few fans. There are a few hills in the later miles before making your way around a park and into downtown for the finish. Post race usually has pretty decent food too.

I didn't have a great performance this last year, but if the weather cooperates, there's no reason you can't throw down a good time on this course to give a bit of a confidence boost going into the racing reason.

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