Comments: The main purpose of this festival is the collegiate, high school and junior high competitions so there are lots of people milling around and on the course warming up during the "open" event for the public. The really fast folks probably hate it because they very quickly lap the slower, recreational runners (like me) and because of the narrow cross country course have to weave in and out of clumps of people. It's certainly a different experience from a road race, and a nice change of pace, but not the type of event I'd want to do all the time.
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