Comments: This was not the most organized event that I have done. The focus is on the survivors, not on making a fancy runners' race. Which is fine. At the start, people weren't exactly sure which direction the race was supposed to head in -- oddly, it set out in the wrong direction and did a hairpin turn after barely 100 yards. The start was delayed because the scheduling of the wheelchair race meant that the first racers were returning around the time that the run was supposed to begin, and the wheelchairs had to veer across the path where runners were supposed to line up. It's fortunate that nobody got hurt, I saw a couple of close calls. I'm not sure that any of the mile markers were close to accurate. The course was well marked, mostly. The start-finish area at Canton Waterfront Park is rather nice, with shade and breeze from the harbor. I like the fact that the organizers kept the race fees low by doing things like making race shirts optional. For the students who I was running with, this made
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