So I thought it would be a brilliant idea to do a run on my birthday. A 15k no less with a half time in between the the 10k and the 5k (my first ) and to drag my friends along. In the process my friend's husband did his first race ever. Great times!

The staging area was great! There were plenty of sponsor booths offering things like water, bananas etc. Free samples of naked juice and all that good stuff to refuel the body. The middle school gym had a stretching area, spin bicycles, a bunch of massage tables and places for people to sit. Yes the race staging area was inside of a middle school gym. Worked great!

The course I was kind of bored with. Keep in mind I am used to doing my races along the waterfront of San Francisco and making loops around business parks was just so so. Basically you did 3 laps of the 5k course and i would have preferred 1 long 10k course and then a shorter modified 5k course instead of the three loops.

How it worked: you first ran a 10k, then you get a "half time" between that and the next leg of the 5k. The half time varied from how quickly you ran the first 10k. Some had an hour, some had 20 minutes, some had no half time.

Overall a very well managed race except for the boring course.