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[1]

Reported by:

Freeswimmingfish

Race rating (4)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?Yes


• Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
• Plenty of drink stations?Yes


• Post race activities? Good
• Overall course based on my ability: Just right


• Comments: Goal was 5 hours or less. I started my Garmin under the start banner and stopped it under the finish banner. It showed our chip time of 5 hours 21 minutes. Bonnie did the same thing, but stopped hers at all the stops, hers showed 4 hours 57 minutes. So we had less than 5 hours of run time!!! We went to Celeste's home for the post party, but most everyone was gone already. Thanks to Celeste for still letting us come over and for feeding us and thanks to Lisa for sticking around!!

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[2]

Reported by:

Mrs Fish

Race rating (5)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?Yes


• Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
• Plenty of drink stations?Yes


• Post race activities? Average
• Overall course based on my ability: Just right


• Comments: My only complaint was the finisher shirt. We worked hard and the shirt is two sizes too big, that was very disappointing. The race was very well organized, the volunteers couldn't have been better, I love the course and the scenery. The expo was really good, too. Our kids had such a great time at the Kid's fun run on Saturday, too!

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[3]

Reported by:

stonefingermd

Race rating (4)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?Yes


• Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
• Plenty of drink stations?Yes


• Post race activities? Average
• Overall course based on my ability: Just right


• Comments: I ran with this one woman for a couple of miles who was pretty nice. She said that she had qualified for Boston last month running the White Rock in Dallas, and admitted to me that she was running the Houston wearing a friend's bib since her friend had gotten sick. However, she said that she'd probably make the qualifying time her friend needed to qualify for Boston and her friend might run it as well. At the time I didn't think much of it, but it struck as highly dishonest for her friend to possibly run Boston in this manner as she never really qualified for it. Personally, I think you're just cheating yourself by saying you got to run in Boston but you never really qualified. What do you all think? I know this woman's name, do you think I should turn her in?

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[4]

Reported by:

jkron

Race rating (5)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?Yes


• Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
• Plenty of drink stations?Yes


• Post race activities? Good
• Overall course based on my ability: Just right


• Comments: Very good organization and volunteers. Everything was well marked and there was plenty of room, so the crowding was not bad at all.

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