"Tips and Notes:
- you don't need to get there as early as they say
- mentally challenging to pass the halfway mark with others finishing - as with almost all half/full marathon races
- good crowd support in the beginning, a bit less on the second half
- work in hill training - not

"Overall a very positive experience. Here are my thoughts:

Pros

1) I liked the race course. Although I know it wasn't easy because of the hills, what goes up must comes down. The first few miles had a good amount of hills but they weren't too steep, and going downhill was really helpful.

This race was HARD! But it was also great. Temecula is beautiful and the majority of the course is on rolling hills of dirt roads through wine country. It was cold at the start (Temecula is a desert!) but when the sun came out it got really hot and added to