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Race Reports for Sunburst Marathon

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Race rating (3)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Overall it was a good race. There could be a few changes. - A separate food tent for half marathon and marathon finishers. The 5kers took almost all of it. - The right distance! There were tons of drink stations out on the course, more then I've seen in any race.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: Billy was a great SAG van driver, but I would really like to have the SAG van way behind me. I guess I need to speed up. The water station volunteers were great, they stayed until the last person passed. We thanked them at each stop and the police who did a good job with the traffic for us BOP.
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?No

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

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

  • Comments: This is a good marathon for a fifty-stater looking for a scenic, well-organized, well-supported race, but not if you're looking for a PR. Pros: *Beautiful course along the St. Joseph River. *Water stops nearly every mile, most stocked with Gatorade Endurance and Gu. *Plenty of enthusiastic, helpful volunteers. *Great sites to start and finish the race. Cons: *Ugliest T-shirt I've received at any race: orange, simplistic design, all events listed with nothing to distinguish the marathon finishers from the Family Fun Walk participants. *Convoluted course, using dead-end streets, parking lots, and the rat maze through the parks at the turnaround. *Significantly innacurate mile markers on course. *No monitoring of the course, allowing rampant cheating. *Minimal crowd support, though the few out there were vocal and supportive. *Hilly and hot, not excessively so, but less than perfect if you are trying to PR.
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