These guys put on a really good event. I do the 5K every year and it is so good that I do it every year now. Professionally set up, timed and the post-party is off the hook.
Great medals and t-shirts.
The course is marked very well so no one ever gets lost or off course.

Highly suggest doing this race.

This was a nice event with no expo but so what. The course was flat and fast and the timing was spot on. I liked it and we are coming back next year and signed up already for 2023. The Finisher awards were great and the trophies they gave for 1st thru 3rd place for also very nice.
Not much food at the post-party but maybe it will be better next year.

This event is great and well done if it takes place. These guys used the coronavirus in 2021 to keep everyone's money and not transfer the runners to the next event. If they put on the race, they do a good job but now they make you buy insurance in case they cancel the race which is a scam.

No other Race Event Director in the entire United States just kept everyone's money! All race directors offered a refund but most just allowed the runners to transfer the entry fee to the next event in 2022 or later in the 2021 season so they could do the race and not lose their money to the race director.

Many people were pissed and did not buy an entry into the 2022 race. My wife does about 50 events a year and she said she will NEVER run in this event again. She said they STOLE her money!

This event was very professional and well-executed. Post-party was very good and the timing was exact. The course had no shade at all and that caused my time to not be as good as usual but they did have a water station at the half waypoint or I might not have made it. If it was not so hot out and maybe a little overcast, this event would be perfect.

Unprofessional and much more. Usually NEVER chip timed and the results are incorrect many times. Top 5 races of males & females get the awards which is ridiculous. NO Race Timing Company does that anywhere else in the United States.
Whiskey Joes was the 1st race I did with my 2 nieces and BOTH nieces placed in the race and I did also but they gave me the wrong color ticket at the finish line so I was not included.

This happened again 1 year later at another race and what they did was have teenage volunteers hand out awards at the finish and a girl handing out the awards failed to hand me an an award and I watched her hand an award out to another guy that crossed the finish line well after me that was around her age.

If you want to go to a race that is good and professionally chip timed and awards are given to people fairly in all age divisions, DO NOT go to these races. If you are an older person, you most likely will not get an award unless you are fast because the younger runners will also win.

The shirts are usually always cotton and never polyester and the metals are the same year after year because less and less people are attending their races and they have so many let over metals. They give away metals at other races that belong to a different race.

Nice couple that puts on the events but they do not run the races professionally.

A race should have a chip timed start at the beginning and at the end of the race.
Someone needed to give an honest rating on this company because I have spoken to so many people that no longer go to Xanadu Race Management events because of all the things that I have discussed in this review.

Ask the people running the event about everything I have listed and see what they tell you. I always try to say good things about timing companies but someone needed to tell the world about how bad of an experience you will have if you take part in their events, especially if you are a runner that takes your events seriously.

I could say so much more but I think you get the point and I hope these guys read this review and change how they do things and treat the events with more professionalism or maybe they get out of the business. I have 6 items in my possession along with emails to show anyone that I am telling the trust 100%. I really do not want to hurt their business but rather wake them up so they treat the sport better.