I love this race and have participated for 5 years now. I have seen this race grow from mediocre organization to a high quality race event. This year the course was new and unfortunately disappointing. Too many turns through the downtown with no Garmin reception. And the bands and the music were no where to be found until mile 6 or so. So this year was a good run, but not the best. With all that said, this is a solid race that maybe with some small tweaks for next year could be back to normal.