The pre-race meal was tasty but the speaker (Dave Scott) boring and I zoned out after he started droning about all the great benefits some herbal suppliments which also happened to be one of his (and the race's) sponsor.
Weather was a critical factor, as it usually is out in the desert. This year's race had everyone shivering at the starting line for about 2 hours standing in the shaded canyon, and then you finish just in time to run the last 3 miles in the blazing sun of an unseasonably hot spring Moab day with temps in the high 90s.
The rest of the race was great. The canyon was absolutely beautiful, aid stations plentiful and well manned and it was nice to have the entire road closed for the race.
If I had any complaints, they would be with things that happened before the race started. The race director must have thought it funny to hand a dozen high school kids megaphones. They were constantly entertaining everyone by hollaring and chasing people that had strayed off the road or were too much in the road. If the race director wanted everyone to stay on the pavement without trampelling the desert vegetation, he should have closed road and hour earlier (before he put 3,000 runners on a 1/4 mile two lane stretch of highway that was not closed to traffic).
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sean said ...
The pre-race meal was tasty but the speaker (Dave Scott) boring and I zoned out after he started droning about all the great benefits some herbal suppliments which also happened to be one of his (and the race's) sponsor.
Weather was a critical factor, as it usually is out in the desert. This year's race had everyone shivering at the starting line for about 2 hours standing in the shaded canyon, and then you finish just in time to run the last 3 miles in the blazing sun of an unseasonably hot spring Moab day with temps in the high 90s.
The rest of the race was great. The canyon was absolutely beautiful, aid stations plentiful and well manned and it was nice to have the entire road closed for the race.
If I had any complaints, they would be with things that happened before the race started. The race director must have thought it funny to hand a dozen high school kids megaphones. They were constantly entertaining everyone by hollaring and chasing people that had strayed off the road or were too much in the road. If the race director wanted everyone to stay on the pavement without trampelling the desert vegetation, he should have closed road and hour earlier (before he put 3,000 runners on a 1/4 mile two lane stretch of highway that was not closed to traffic).
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