First year for this race and it was small! (16 people had finished the half by 2 hrs and 15 min with not a whole lot more on the course). NE of Spokane by 90 min or so, I drove out Saturday and spent the night at one of the maybe 3-4 hotels in the city. If you were local, you could pick up your bibs Thursday or Friday. No bib pick up Saturday, but you could on Sunday from 6-7 AM prior to the start of the race. Between the 10k and Half Marathon, there were maybe 50 people total?

Race Start: 7 AM

Expo: Not so much since it was a small race put on by the area fitness center, but you could pick up bibs Thursday/Friday or race morning from 6-7 AM

Parking: in the start/finish area in front of the Ft. Colville Grange

Course: out and back. Not as flat as I thought, definitely hills. If you're calling it flat, I shouldn't have huge dips on elevation map when I finish the race. Water/Gatorade every 2 miles with the turn around for the half 6.55 miles in. We were running on the shoulder of the road essentially with active traffic, though it wasn't horribly busy. Some of the turns on the course made it difficult to see if anyone was coming due to trees. They did have a course vehicle that drove the course the entire race, which was good.

Finish: at the start. Had water, gatorade, oranges and bananas. You could also check your times on the printed out results that provided. You got a medal at the finish as well.

Swag: Shirt and medal essentially. I like the idea of going local for the shirts, but a small is ridiculously small and I actually don't want to wash it because I'm pretty sure the logo is going to peel off when I do.

Overall, a good first running of the race, but could do better with the shirts. Could also do some more advertising because I'm sure people from Spokane would come up if they knew about the race