Cowtown Half Marathon is in Fort Worth, TX and benefits The Cowtown C.A.L.F project providing local children with shoes. It warms my heart to know children are benefiting from my running habit. The volunteers are always friendly and the race is well organized. The distances vary from 5K, 10K, half, full, and ultra. You can chose to do a challenge consisting of 5K or 10K on Saturday and half, full, or ultra on Sunday. The medals are spectacular and the expo is great too. You receive a finishers shirt at the end and a shirt in your packet pick up. As you finish the race, you enter the coliseum for water, fruit, ice cream, and warm chicken noodle soup which was an awesome post race treat that warmed the heart. I recommend this race to anyone and everyone. It is a great family event and Fort Worth is a great place! Read more at ChristiLyn.com.

I have a love/ hate relationship for the Rock 'n" Roll series. They are well organized, but overpopulated and very commercialized. They have a great marketing team and probably make lots of money. I feel the smaller races are more personable. Rock ‘n’ Roll series are always overpopulated and it was NOLA where everyone wants to hang out. I know there were at least 22 corrals. The course was scenic and flat which is a bonus.
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