Race Review - Run and Ride Series

This was our first time doing this race series.  We opted to just do the 10K.  Again, another Sunday race.  While we don't like to miss church, sometimes we have to.

We went down Friday night and went through their "haunt".  It was 10 maze attractions.  I hate haunted houses and things.....hate them.  So after 20 years, the hubs got his way and I went.  It was traumatizing but I survived - ha!

The next day, Saturday, we rode rides since the event was at King's Island.  We had VIP for the Haunt and the rides which made it nice.  Instead of waiting hours, we waited 10 minutes...at most.  It was nice to enjoy the day together despite the chilly air.  It is crazy how scary everything looked the night before with the fog and the creepy monsters lurking around and then in the daylight it wasn't intimidating at all.

Then Sunday we headed to the park while it was still dark.  These shorter days suck!  The race was a 10k or a half marathon and we opted for the 10K.

They let the half marathoners go first then we got released 10 minutes later.  It was a nice run.  It was all pavement, through the parking lot, through the park, through their dinosaur exhibit then behind the rides and around through the water park area.

I felt pretty good for most of it.  There were a couple hills that were brutal and I had to take a minute to catch my breath and walk up them.  No shame in that.

I would do this series again.  It was a fun race and nice medal.  The medals were magnetic and look like rollercoaster train cars so you can connect them.  Cute.  We had the perk to ride the rides before the park opened but since we spend all the previous day doing, that we opted to just head home.  We were wiped out anyway from the full weekend haha!  They had emergency blankets to warm us up and chocolate milk, water and powerade plus bananas and bagels.  The bananas were not great.  They looked like they had been frozen and were brown and mushy.


So the review of the event Run and Ride Series (10K)
Terrain - pavement
Organization - organized well
Cost - varies due to ticket prices and so forth
Time of the race - 9:00pm
Overall - fun weekend, would recommend it
Swag - a medal and tee
My Time - 1 hour 7 minutes
Race #34 (54 total to date)