Excellent scenery and well organized event. Tough trails at altitude - but worth the views. Ragnar Village is spread out on a soccer and baseball field so nice soft grass to pitch camp. A rec center at the village provides showers and a pool so it's far from roughing it.

I had a wonderful race with my husband on Nov 6th. It was my first Marathon in the states and I was so impressed with the high level of the organization, the incredible encouragement from the crowd as well as the support of the huge numbers of volunteers giving us

"Having failed to secure a spot in the NYC Marathon (the only marathon I've run -- and only once), I looked for a race that would be close to home, and have good crowd support. I read up on Philly, saw that it was fairly flat, and that there was