Savin Rock Marathon

This was my 50th marathon. In my experience, race directors are usually salt of the earth, incredible people who do way too much work for way too little praise. This is not the case for the this race. The race director was a huge tool. Every aspect of the course was evidence of poor planning. No restrooms on the course, bad mile markers, no garbage cans at water stations, few water stops, lots of un-patrolled intersections, and I probably could go on. He was also sarcastic, unhelpful, and petty when registering.

A pretty good marathon. I threw my back out at work about a week before the race so was just happy to finish. Easy packet pickup morning of race, easy parking near start Chilly at start of race. Starting point by the water was pretty Course had many rolling hills, not the most difficult course I've done, but certainly not an easy one Some do not like 2 loop courses, but I don't mind them I liked the medal Not too much crowd support, not much fanfare at finish.food at finish line not spectacular Being from Ohio, I enjoyed driving around and checking out the Yale campus after the race.

This is a challenging course. 8 steep and 1 moderate hill between 4 and 9 miles. Flat or rolling otherwise. Repeat twice. Not impossible. My only course complaint was that they probably could have chosen an out and back in the 5th mile that didn't involve going up and down a steep hill. The RD should consider delaying the start for 30 minutes. This would allow NYC residents to reach the race on the first train w/o needing a hotel. This was the 6th running of the half marathon. The RD should know where to place the mile markers by now. They were consistently off and were useless for pacing. Even the 26M marker was closer to 550 yards from the finish line than 385 yards. This was my biggest complaint. Still, I'll probably do it again.