I wasn’t originally planning on running this race, but it was a part of a challenge after the San Francisco half. I’m so glad I did! It’s been two years and I still wear the green shirt because it was so cute, and I see them everywhere too! I ran the year that there was a torrential downpour of rain mid-race, which made things kind of tough. But the funniest part to me was the old hippies that came out and were cheering nonetheless. The only thing is I wished we were able to run a little part of the course on the Cal Bears campus, because that is such an iconic part of Berkeley. Regardless, I look back on this and think I had such a great race experience. I think others did too, because many of us were cheering on each other in the rough weather. Also, they gave out really great medals for completing the race series challenge, and even added a subsequent medal and challenge for the turkey trot in Silicon Valley (so I ended up with like 5 medals for 3 races). I would run this race, and this series again!