Drop13 Half Marathon & 5K Race Reviews

If the swag bag is important tell us what you would like to see in it. We do electronic bags because it helps lower waste and easier to to load. Someone suggested a gel packet in it. We will try to do this in 2018. We will not load it with junk though. A $.50 off coupon to subway will not find its way into our bag because it is a waste of paper. We would love hear what you would like to see outside of a coupon you would find in a valpak envelope. 

Can you expound a bit. Bad does not help our feedback? We would like to do better but need your help or suggestions on what we can improve on outside of saying bad. We had ice cream, peanut butter sandwiches, oranges, bananas powerade and water at the finish. Please let us know what else we could offer. As to the grab bag, we are not a company that believes in waste. 99% of race bags is junk. It is often full of coupons from local vendors often with a similar value to a Valpak or Hometown Values advertisement. Rarely you will get something like a key chain or a water bottle from a sponsor. What would you like us to offer? We try to do all ads via electronic packet instead of wasting paper in race bags too. As to the buses we had more than enough. In 2018 we opted to give people the option to ride the 4AM or 440AM shift so it would help eliminate what you wanted. In 2017 we had some racers upset they were too early while others felt they were too late. 

The food at the finish was ice cream, bread, peanut butter, oranges and bananas. We had water and Powerade. If I could ask what you would suggest what would you like to see for food. It is important to offer some great things so I would love to hear what else we could do.

We do not care about sponsorships like many because they are only a commercial. Often the sponsors give little to no value to the race. Occasionally they will contribute items like key chain but for the effort we have found most of the time they only offer the same items as a val-pak. Though we would love more tents or sponsors we find it silly to have sponsors just to have sponsors. It is like watching tv and screaming it did not have enough commercials. Sorry if you wanted more. We will try for more for the future. Also we did bring the clothing down. Where did we not. It was there 30 minutes prior to the first finisher.