This race is definitely a hyper local race, and a park of the Mt Horeb Summer Frolic festival. It offers a 5 mile and a 2 mile. Packet pickup is only offered morning of the race, but it's a pretty simple process.

Not being a local, parking was a little tricky for me at first. Turns out, you can park on basically any street in Mt Horeb, so just find an open spot. Just don't park on the course.

Speaking of the course, you line up on a cross walk line to start the race. I had to ask a volunteer where we started, because it really wasn't obvious.

The race starts you odd on a steep downhill, before hanging a left onto the road where you'll spend the rest of the race. Yes, it's an out and back. The out portion (which I didn't notice until it was too late) is almost entirely downhill, and sometimes steep downhill. This means that the back is entirely uphill, including the finish. Run accordingly.

There are two aid stations with water, one at the 1 mile mark and one at the 2.5 mark (the turnarounds for both races).

There was a shirt, but I opted to save $5 and not get one, so I'm not sure of the quality, look, etc of that.

Overall, I enjoyed this race, and would run it again if in the area.

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