I actually won the entry via bib rave. which was pretty awesome. I have always wanted to go a race in the kettle merange(sp).
Things I loved: the aid stations the energy was amazing, the treats were great, and everything was always filled.
The course: beautiful
the afterparty: normally i just want to leave right away, but i sat and chilled for a while, the set up was great
things I didn't like. the race is a event, so there is a 50miler, 50k, marathon and marathon relay all going on at once. but they stagger the starts so its mainly the back of the packers hitting the overlap. I was a back of the packer that day, and the marathon relay people zipping by me running their 10k when i was on mile 29 were annoying me. in retrospect it was fine, i was just crabby by their happy faces racing by me, and i was ready to fall over.
parking was super easy, everything about the race is basically anything a first time 50k person would want. you are pretty pampered.
one minor thing, if you are into medals, its pretty basic. I like the medal. but I know I have a lot of friends who are into their medals who thought it didn't look like much.