4/5 Stars

The scenery was awesome.

Yes

The course was great

Bring your own recovery drink to the finish.

Traveled from Idaho...

5/5 Stars

I loved the supportive volunteers. Thank you for having such positive people. And thank you for having well stocked aid stations.

Yes. First race. Slow and not worth mentioning a time though.

The course was beautiful and definitely a good first half to start with.

I did not train properly. I did cardio but did not focus on running. Before completing this, the most I had ran was 6 miles. Did not think I could finish, was impressed I did. To others I would say, train. And even if you think you can't do it, you probably can.

Bring pants to wear up at the top of the canyon and send back down in one of the trucks. I wished I would have had some. Spandex did not cut it in the warmth department.

5/5 Stars

It was great! Loved all the little signs down the mountain. It made me smile.

Beautiful scenery, and a nice grade till the last 3 miles. Which were up and down hill.

5/5 Stars

amazing!

yes!!! so excited!

its a beautiful course and is set up perfectly.

I run half marathons all year, so training never stops!!

to enjoy the scenery and thank the volunteers. they are amazing and super energetic and just plain awesome!

5/5 Stars

My race was tough due to injury , but I was able to BQ again by about 25 minutes. This is my third year in a row for the full , and I was lucky to BQ at all three times, even when the out and back was was longer. My favorite memory was the beauty of this canyon, and all of my running friends. Two of my friends stayed after their marathon and cheered me on.

I was a minute from PR. I think I could have done better if my calves hadn't cramped in the last 3 miles. Just grateful to have run.

The course is not the easy downhill that you hear people , who haven't run it , call it. I think it is challenging , but fun.

I train with Run4fun people and Hometown Heroes. I did quite a bit of trail running this summer to mix it up, and a few uphill races in Colorado , and a few peaks.

Not being an expert , I would just tell them to run All aspects of the course, to get a feel of what it would be like .

I loved the expo and went to lunch with friends . I happily ran the canyon during the summer , at a pace to enjoy the scenery . It was so crowded towards the end.

3/5 Stars

I woke up really early to drive up to the SLC area from Provo and found the buses easily. At the starting line I waited for a while with plenty of time for my feet to get numb... I was not expecting it to be that cold--should have prepared for that a little better. For me the course was hard but it made it that much more sweet to make it through the finish line. I wish there would have been an ice bath available but I was grateful for the ice towels.

nope.

The starting line was miserably cold and might have been aided with some warm drinks or fire pits. The course is a hard and long course because it is so steep for the entire time and the out and back played mind games that makes it hard.

My training was interrupted unexpectedly with a serious illness during the summer for a good 4 weeks. I think I did pretty well considering my circumstances.

Practice the couse.

4/5 Stars

Beautiful day wonderful scenery. The 3:30 pacer guys were a crack up.

While yes I did cut 25 minutes or so from previous marathons.

As stated above the scenery was awesome. The grades were manageable a couple of steep spots downhill that hurt as much as the inclines on the out and back

Trained for this starting in July. Heart rate training which I think helped a bunch. Did not train for altitude or long descents but neither were an issue for this race for me. My heart rate was under control raised a bit at mile 3 and spiked on the wastach section.

Enjoy this gem. You will go out fast and enjoy the decent don't expend your energy until you need it at mile 20.

Traveled from Sacramento and was pretty sore after the race. Salt Lake City was easy to travel to and around.

5/5 Stars

So many extras with this race. You exceeded expectations.

Yes, by 52 minutes

Beautiful, fast, fun

Training in the canyon, to get experience on the downhill.

Lean forward.

Lunch with my family

5/5 Stars

It was awesome! Thanks for all the preparations and support from police, staff, volunteers and donors! I think this race will have to be a yearly tradition!

It was my first race, so yes?

It was great and beautiful.

Overall training was good. I would probably schedule more training runs on the coarse before race day, especially the downhill parts.

Train on the downhill

I'm from the area

5/5 Stars

really nice. the gloves and emergency blanket were ket at the start. it was COLD!

yes by 8 minutes. broke a 5 year record

fun! last 3 miles were tough but...

definitely train downhills