Run Project puts on a pretty good race for the price. There's no expo; I picked up my packet a local Lululemon store. That was fine. The biggest problem with the race is parking. You can pay extra to park near the start/finish. Otherwise, you're either street parking or walking a long way. It's not a big deal, but you have to budget your time.

The swag this year was a tank top and a hat. The tank top is nice, but it's black. I would have preferred red or orange (the race's other colors) just because black is hot in the summer and too dark for a morning run. The hats were delayed from China. They say they're going to mail them directly to us when they come in. Probably not their fault, but who knows?

The course is around White Rock lake; the scenery is nice, but it's also my normal route so it's nothing special. It is not challenging at all; there are only a couple of "hills" on this course that sort of straddle the midpoint. They are 50-80 foot climbs. It's an out-and-back, so you get to go down them as well.

Aid stations had Nuun, which I like personally. The spacing of the aid stations was fine. I volunteers were okay, but sometimes they were a little under staffed. That's ok for the price.

Post-race was good if you were in the beer corral where they had 26.2 beer and that new spiked seltzer water stuff. But outside of the beer area, it was not so good. Lots of bottled water, but by the time I finished (2:05) many of the tents had been abandoned, including the Hoist tent.

Overall, it's a good race for a fair price. It was super hot though, and the 7:30am start seemed late for a July race. I'd love a 5am start, but I'd settle for 7am.