Overall, the race was amazing. The only difficult part was the parking! We had to park on the grass and it took a little longer than usual to get everyone aligned as we had to back in which added to the time of getting to the race course. The weather called for sunny skies, unfortunately, it started to rain right at the start of it. It was great that there were pacers for 3, 315 and every 15 minute interval all the way up to 5 hours! What a way to get people moving. The medal for the marathon was HUGE! Love it. Around mile 21 the course became very rocky and muddy as it had to deviate from the flat course which was a problem for balance but overall, it was good. Aid stations and the people at them were friendly and they even had gummy bears!!! I prefer an out and back and not doing two loops of the same loop (sorry my preference) but overall, if you are looking for a flat course, needing to BQ in the PacNW, this is the race.