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Race Reports for The Wilds EcoThon

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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?

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

  • Comments: The 10th anniversary run -- lots of fun, lots of freaky runners attracted to the toughness of the hills.
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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: Drink station had water only. Given the dificulty of the course, I think that an energy drink would have been a good idea. Post race food was plain old bagels and PB&J. The Wilds
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Race rating (4)
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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

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

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

  • Comments: Well, first off, it should be said that this is a great and unique race. Next year will be it's tenth year, there's clearly great community support, and I was really surprised at the crowds of folks running. They had good amounts of food and drink at the end, and all in all it's well organized if you take into account that you're literally in the middle of nowhere. It's a hell of a hilly course, though. They offer you a free tour of their rhino and giraffe and various other wildlife enclosures after the race. We exchanged our tickets for rain checks -- maybe some other time. They could have really used an aid/encouragement station past the mile 5 marker. It was hot and lonely out there, and after I survived the hills, I needed something to keep me going. A gu, maybe, or some gatorade, or Bruce Springsteen. Something, people, something.
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