Races

Race Reports for Oak Brook Half Marathon

• All years
• 2009
• 2008

[1]

Reported by:

ctrapper24

Race rating (4)

• Organised?Yes
• Events on time?No


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


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


• Comments: Great race! Aid stations well stocked and plenty of volunteers. Only issue was packet pick-up being delayed while they had to wait for something to show up (seems like it was the bibs). They delayed the start 20 minutes to make sure everyone got through the line. Packet pick-up was available last week but the site is not close to home so I decided to wait until race morning (we got there right before packet pick-up was supposed to start but it didn't help any). Can't really complain I suppose.

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[2]

Reported by:

trithat

Race rating (3)

• Organised?No
• Events on time?No


• Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
• Plenty of drink stations?No


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


• Comments: Very nice course, but it was the first year for this race, and it showed. I arrived at 6:15, 45 minutes before the scheduled start and waited in the line for packet pickup for more than an hour, then had to get in the line for timing chip pickup and waited a few minutes more. Race started late, and was very disorganized. There was only one tent for PP and were only four flustered volunteers that had clearly never done this before. Big improvements need to be made in terms of organization or I won't do this race again, despite it being a nice course. Also, there were not enough aid stations on the course, and this needs to be addressed as well.

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