Overall: This has the feel of a big city race with some smaller race perks - attainable age group awards, easy access, great communication, variety of distances, excellent course support.

T-Shirts /SWAg: high quality technical shirts. I ran both the Saturday morning Mile and the Half Marathon and the shirts were slightly different - nice. Good variety of food in the finish area - free & food trucks, and beer with ID. (NOTE: ID needed for beer, we bought 2 for $3/each instead of the 3-step process needed with no ID)

Aid stations: Great energy, plenty of water / Gatorade. No gel on 13.1 course, opportunity for more support in miles 11-13 when going gets tough!

Course scenery: AMAZING! Love, love, LOVED the city streets / neighborhoods.

Expo: Nice size, plenty of vendors, large area for PNC (title sponsor). Line for packet pick up was prett long, moved relatively quickly.

Elevation: A few long inclines. Tough, but doable.

Parking: plenty of options, we parked at O'Donnell and walked over. My husband wasn't able to get back into the parking structure mid-race, and found a spot on the street later. The post race walk was a challenge.

Race Management: Great! There's been a lot of chatter about the course being long. It was. I've also run races where the course is short. I'm a mid-pack runner, won't BQ, aim to enjoy the race so this wasn't huge for me. The RD addressed this as best he could.

All in all, this is a great race. I would definitely come back: great experience, amazing course, good support and swag. Yes, there are some ways to improve, but it is already the real deal. I read that there were 800 volunteers for 4000 entrants - nicely done Milwaukee Running Festival, runners and fans!

I was attracted to this distance (10M, also offered a 5k) and the timing was great with my goal half marathon training. The fee was reasonable and I opted to pay an extra $10 to have my goodies shipped to me. They arrived a week earlier and I was pleas d by the efficiency. The sweatshirt wasn't exactly what I expected (more of a polyester) but I appreciated the effort! I heard through social media that packet pick up was a disaster, so I was extra relieved that I'd paid a bit extra for convenience!
Course was easy to get to and start time was reasonable for the time of year. We parked a bit away, as we weren't confident about access in the park. Plenty of porto-potties (although mine had no TP). Race line up was a bit congested, energy at the start line was average, and announcements, if any, were hard to hear. All in all, the course was a nice, flat, out and back. I like every watching other runners, get energy from that, so I was pleased. The first 1 mile was slow and congested, walkers through 2 or 3 wide. This is my biggest suggestion for improvement - better organization of 5k walkers at the start. There were ample aid stations which were stocked well and water at the finish. No mdals, but mugs for the hot cider. The logistics of the finish line were tricky - you had to cross back across the course to get to cider & photo ops. All in all, a good race, nice distance, beautiful scenery, flat course that could be improved with a race director with an eye for details.