Expo: This year the Atlanta Track Club held their number pick-up and mini Expo at a closed down restaurant at the race site. It acted as a mini Head Quarters. While not a huge expo, it was easy to get what you needed from your bib and shirt (just needed to know your bib number) and they had Mizuno gear and running necessities from Big Peach. Simple and easy!

Parking: There's tons of parking in the parking garage but the roads getting in can get backed up. I got there at 5am to volunteer with no problem but those getting there around 6:30-7am were pushing it. Definitely try to get there an hour and a half early.

Bathrooms: They put a ton of porta potties (maybe 20 of them?) all in the same location near the start. This made the start a little chaotic with people trying to cross the corrals to get to the bathrooms and made the start smelly. I would recommend scattering them across the race area. Note, if you volunteer you get private bathrooms!

Race: The corrals were A-F. Runners were corralled based on segmented time unless they were Triple Peach runners in which they got to self seed. The self seeing bothered me as people took that as a free pass to jump ahead to corrals that didn't match their abilities. Seems like no big deal when you do it but when you're the one having to dodge people, it's irritating!

The course is hilling with a gain of about 700ft. There are 2 big hills within the first mile. So you definitely need some hill training before taking on this course. ATC did a great job with a cheering competition of about 10 or so organizations strategically placed throughout the course.

The Cardiac Hill contest is always fun. They put a timing mat at the bottom and top of the hill (a mile) and you get a separate time just for that section. They do a contest for the top 100 up the hill. While I'll never be one of those top 100, it's fun to race myself over previous years! I beat my time 2 years ago by 2+ minutes!

There are some parts of the course that still have traffic going through and you have to stay on one side of cones. Some people don't pay attention and run on the wrong side of the cones, with headphones in and could not hear runners telling them there was a car back. So you definitely need to be alert on the course!

I didn't pay attention to how many, but there seemed to be plenty of waterstops...maybe every 2 miles? There was one Cliffblocks stop at the top of a hill as well.

This was my second year running this race (ran it in 2014) and took about 10 minutes off of my time.

The medal was one of the best ATC has had and the shirt was a great Mizuno tech long sleeve shirt with hood, thumbholes and a front pocket.

After the race there was bottle water, powerade, bananas and a small food box. They've made some changes to their food boxes recently and I haven't been as excited about the choices in there...but I'm picky :-)

There were also great breakfast options after the race around Atlantic Station.