Skedaddle half marathon12/24/2023 ![]() Course was a little bit boring in places, but that may also have been because they had to make adjustments due to flooding.Good volunteer/course support (plenty of water stops).Wind: 12 mph Size of Field: around 1,000 Elevation Gain: 197 ft (according to Garmin) Pros: Overall Assessment: Definitely Recommend Time of Year: end of April (4/28/19) Start Time: 7:30 am Temperature: 36° at start, maybe in the low 40s at finish. Am definitely bookmarking the Good Life Halfsy in Lincoln, Nebraska for my NE race, since it’s put on by the same folks. Probably won’t ever run again, but only ’cause it’s way out of the way. Even though the weather was on the crappy side (in the 30s and windy), I had a great time. The swag was great, and the support on the course was excellent. Everything was really well-run, and they smoothly handled having to adjust the course due to flooding. I feel quite satisfied with my first visit to South Dakota, and I might even try to return to the western part of the state at some point to explore the Badlands (didn’t have time on the drive in).Īs for the race, I was super-impressed with the organization. ![]() And I had a nice couple of nights in town. Sioux Falls is cute! As you might expect, it has a lovely set of waterfalls. So, I got to check a national monument off the list as well. And, as a sort of random happenstance, driving to Sioux Falls from Las Vegas took me past Mt. ![]() And! Since I was signing up like 3 weeks out, they had already revealed the medal!! And it was bangin’.Īdmittedly, South Dakota wasn’t really in the middle of Vegas and Pittsburgh, per se, but it was close enough. They have such a great website! And had clearly invested in a graphic designer. Then, I visited the race website and was even more sold on the event!. To see if I had alternate options, I pulled up the magical calendar (with map view) on Running in the USA, and was delighted to find the Skedaddle listed. I was also a bit nonplussed about the medal, so I felt like maybe this wasn’t the time to run Nebraska. The major flooding last spring damaged their course, and they were scrambling to figure out solutions. Initially, I was planning to run a race in Nebraska (also an inaugural race, but one that didn’t seem quite so well organized – and hence shall remain nameless). I was planning to drive from Las Vegas to Pittsburgh and wanted to find a race relatively in the middle - since I’m working my way through all 50 states, and this seemed like a good opportunity to check off a midwestern state. I signed up for this race pretty last minute (at least by my usual months-out planning standards). ![]() It was so great, y’all! (In spite of being in the 30s with 10+ mph wind.) However! I’m so glad I took a chance on this one. Plus, with a new race, you often can’t Google stalk the medals… (Witness most of the new classes I ever taught). This stems in part from my own experiences with, well, most things… the first time you do it, it usually doesn’t go that great. When I’ve scouted events, I’ve shied away from those that haven’t been tested and proven. Historically, I’ve been wary of inaugural races. Y’all, with a name like Skedaddle, I obviously had to run this race. ![]()
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