"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 was a fun neighborhood race with a very scenic route. It was well organized, started on time, and it felt like the whole local community came out to cheer us on, which was fun. The course had a good mix of uphill and downhill, but beware...Gallows Lane is no joke!

Due to confusion about the course, this race was a complete disaster. Runners being sent down the wrong streets, backtracking, running into others going the wrong way...could they have screwed it up any more? Most of the 5K runners ended up running about 2.3 miles, that is, if they didn't fall