TARC did not go the way I would have liked, as I ended up with my first DNF. The race is well organized, very friendly/helpful volunteers, well stocked aid stations and a beautiful course. It's a 25 mile loop. There is parking and camping right by the start/finish area and plenty of room to set up your gear to hit up every time you come in from a loop. My biggest problem was time. I thought the course was going to be more rolling ups/downs and some technical terrain. However in reality, it was over 3000 feet of climbing per loop and a solid 6-7 miles of very rocky, technical terrain that was a huge time waster. The cutoffs begin at 24 hours, mile 75. Overall you have 32 hours to finish 100 miles. That's 8 hours per loop which after you do one loop, it's not really enough time. My husband and I did the first loop in 6.5 hours but the second took 8 so obviously the 3rd longer and we ran out of time. It's a very tough race to finish in the allotted time, which is evidenced by the 25% finish rate.

My blog post: http://runningmarathonmom.blogspot.com/2015/11/tarc100.html