This was my fourth year running this race, and I am always impressed by how well this race is run. As opposed to previous years, this race wasn't too hot or too cold/rainy.

I love that this race is going eco-friendly, requiring racers to provide their own cups/bladders/bottles for water, and the only thing I wish it had more of was Nuun at the main exchanges, like it used to.

We did get flooded out at the race packet pick-up, but this was not something they could control. It was still better than a few years ago when a chunk of the race course got washed out by flooding!

I was going to call it, hanging up my Ragnar racing shoes, after this one, but then they announced they were changing the course, running it in 2019 up to Duluth from St. Paul, and I couldn't pass it up! I cannot wait!