• Providence,
    Rhode Island,
    United States
  • May
  • 3 miles/5K, 13.1 miles/Half Marathon, 26.2 miles/Marathon
  • Road Race
  • Event Website

Samantha Roderigues

Massachusetts, United States
25 29
2018
"Awesome Race!"
Overall
T-Shirts/SWAG
Aid Stations
Course Scenery
Expo Quality
Elevation Difficulty
Parking/Access
Race Management
Samantha Roderigues's thoughts:

I ran this race as the half last year, but didn't realize the full wasn't just an extension of the half course.

As always Rhode Races provides you with an awesome technical t-shrit, a finishers medal (that can be combined with other race medals in the series to make a mega medal!), a bunch of little things in a goodie bag, and (my personal favorite) really high quality free race photos!

The aid stations were about ever 2 miles (with a slight gap in the second half of the half I noticed), but were awesome and always had water, Gatorade, and super friendly volunteers!

The scenery for both the half and full impressed me since I wasn't expecting very much being in a city. They managed to find lovely country back road and water side views for the most part. A lot of the second half being along the bike path.

I was in a rush on packet pickup day so I didn't really have time to check out the expo much. Seemed like there was a decent amount of merchandise though.

For being labeled as a really flat race (and knowing a good portion is along the bike path which is the flattest of flat), the first third to half included a decent amount of little hills and inclines. But again the second half is along the bike path and completely flat until about the last 3 miles through the city.

Parking is at the Providence Place Mall so there's tons and it's super easy to get to the start. It's not free, but you could probably look into other lots in the area.

I've run many of Rhode Races races and they have all been great! They seem to really care about your racing experience and just keep improving their already great management yearly!

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