It’s safe to say that I will NEVER do this race again, even though I won it back in 2000. They screwed up the course in the first mile, missing the first turn. This made the course shorter, and all the mile markers were inaccurate (which I didn’t care about since I had Garmin). I’m glad I carried a water bottle with me because they were not at all generous with the water on the course. It also went on a bike trail which was dirt and sand in spots and not well paved where there was asphalt. Several of the roads were not good for running as they had high traffic and no shoulder, and there were no cones for a runner lane. As we were nearing the finish line, it got confusing because the volunteers were saying that we had another loop to do to make up the distance! Several of us just said the heck with it. I just stopped my watch and didn’t go through the finish line. The results are probably all over the place because I’m sure some did the extra loop and some didn’t. So they actually screwed up THREE events, because they had a 10k and 5k and they all missed the first turn. I think I’m not only set with this race but all South Shore Race events for awhile. I chose this race over the Hyannis Sprint Triathlon, but won’t do that again. On a positive note I hung in tough for a 12 mile training run in challenging conditions. My running has been going very well so I’m not going to worry much about anything that happened today. On to Buzzards Bay next weekend!!