• Martha's Vineyard ,
    Massachusetts,
    United States
  • May
  • 26.2 miles/Marathon
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

William Brent

EMMAUS, Pennsylvania, United States
36 52
2018
"It was okay"
Overall
T-Shirts/SWAG
Aid Stations
Course Scenery
Expo Quality
Elevation Difficulty
Parking/Access
Race Management
William Brent's thoughts:

All in all this was a good race; but probably not on my top to do a second time.
The good:
Friendly race staff. Communicative race management. Relatively flat. Nice swag (I really liked the shirt and back pack)
The bad:
I was really hoping for better scenery; the first half of the race was in a state park / nature reserve but it was not full of vegetation it was kind of blah.
The ugly:
Miles 1 through 13 were off by almost a half mile (as an example at mile 7; my Garmin read 7.57)

I really thought it would be cool to have to take a ferry to a race; but while the logistics worked out and the race director did a great job scheduling buses--it was still kind of a headache to take a ferry to the race start.
When I imagine a Martha's Vineyard run I was picturing cape cod houses on the beach and sand dunes...
while we passed some of that at mile 13 through 18...
for the most part it we were on the walking path or bike path in the nature reserve.

The expo was a tent. No biggie.
The finish line was 2 tents...

Amazing volunteers and there were plenty of places along the course where you could cheer form your loved ones.
In fact; you could cheer; drive to the next path opening; cheer--repeat...

If you're local this is probably an amazing race. I can't comment enough on the race staff the timing staff and the volunteers, they are the reason I have a hard time being overly critical of the race.

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