This race was a part of the Golden State series, where if you ran the Livermore half, the Oakland half, and the San Francisco Golden gate half, you would get a special medal and such. I picked up the promotional marketing materials for it in January. As the year wore on, without notice, they took away the Oakland half which no longer exists (“the Town”), then added and required the Santa Barbara half, and then did away with the series entirely. Throughout the year, their promotion, for which I had several different copies of marketing materials, kept changing. I emailed them politely with each change, and with each change had a hard time with their company. By the end of the year when I ran the final race, they gave me a really hard time when I tried to have them honor the series. Eventually they gave me a medal from a previous year so that I would go away. But this was really disappointing. The whole reason I signed up for these races was to complete the series, because I have a goal to complete a series every year. This company should’ve handled it differently from the outset of the year and not promoted something that they didn’t do.