This was a wonderful race and I highly recommend it for first time marathon runners.

My friend and I decided to run the marathon in the spring of 2016 and started training for it at the beginning of summer based on a 12 week training program. I had already been running quite a bit before that but not nearly enough to manage a marathon without a strict training profile.

I was excited and nervous all-in-one about the race distance and the area. Mainly because I'd never ran that far before and never ran in that area.

I definitely will run in the Detroit Free Press Marathon series again someday, maybe even in 2018, I am not sure yet. But everything was very well organized about the race. The map of the course was sent out well in advance as well as information about where to go to meet up before hand and pick up packets and other information. There were plenty of resources available and if not, contact information was provided as well.

There was only one downfall to the race, that was due to the t-shirts not being ordered properly and ended up having to get an interim shirt instead (made of cotton) but eventually after a month or two, the final shirt came in the mail and it is a great shirt for sure! It is a typical style running shirt with long sleeves and has some excellent designs on it for claiming the 26.2 miles and Detroit name.

I look forward to running in this race again someday