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Submitted by Savannah Anderson
October 29, 2012
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My recap:
Pre-race: I arrived at the event early enough to find parking. I waited in my car then joined hundreds of others in the entertainment/vendor area. There were so many people dressed in 80s costume it was soooo awesome! I noticed there was a lot of traffic.. sucks for the people who waited till the last minute to arrive. The energy was great! Lots of friendly people!!
Course: BEAUTIFUL course.. nice and flat. Running with a bunch of other people in 80s costume was great! If you are looking for a competitive run, this is not the event. This a more like a FUN event! 🙂
Plenty of water on the course.. There was even 3 DJs on the course!!
Post Race: PAST ACTION HEROES was AWESOME!! Loved the energy at the post race party.. lots of dancing, entertainment and FREEBIES!!!!!
Overall: One of the best 5ks I have ran in a long time.. I didnt care about my finishing time, I was just there to have a good time with my friends. Superhero Events knows how to throw great events and I will always support Ken and Sabrina. They really know how to take care of their participants and make them feel special. PLUS they give out the BEST medals! HOORAY for the 80s!!!!
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Submitted by Leah Williams-Harbach
October 29, 2012
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This event was Horribly organized. Traffic was horrific trying to get in and so was parking. You had to park about .5 miles away. One cop directing traffic but that was it. I got there 45 mins early but barely made it to the start line by 7. They started about 5 mins late. Course was nice and flat but they only had one water station and no on on course, except for water station, helping direct at all. They also didn’t stagger start times so it was really crowded. Thankfully a lot of people were late or it would have been even worse. Superhero events seem to have really fun themes but not for serious runners.
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Submitted by cherylames
October 29, 2012
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The Awesome 80’s Run was an event the whole family enjoyed. I signed up my entire family for this race: my husband, my 11-year old son and my 7-year old daughter. They kids got a kick out of donning some 80’s attire and it was fun seeing all the different costumes people had on.
Fiesta Island was a beautiful venue to hold it at but with over 3,000 participants you had to make sure you got there early enough to get into the area and find parking. We arrived an hour before start time and it took us about 15 minutes to get in and park our car. By the time the race started, a little after 7:00, we could still see a bunch of cars waiting on the freeway trying to exit into Fiesta Island. I heard that many people were allowed to start their race late because they couldn’t get in on time. Some started as late as an hour.
The staging area had several vendors on hand to keep you pre-occupied while you waited. No long lines at the porta-potties that I experienced. A lot of 80’s music playing, and some 90’s music mixed in (Bobby Brown is from the 90’s people!) to get you hyped up.
The course was really nice and flat so you didn’t feel like you had to put in so much effort. It was one loop for the 5k runners and two loops around for the 10k runners. My family and I ran the 5k and saw one water station at Mile 1. When you crossed the finish line you had to turn in your timing chip to get your medal. It was a little confusing at the finish area because people were mingling around. They should have made people exit the area once they collected their medals to avoid the crowding and confusion.
Post Race they had local high school cheerleaders performing for the crowds, which was a nice touch. They also had a band called Past Action Heroes on stage. They were fun to watch and very entertaining! They even threw out some memorabilia to the crowds, like the 80’s sunglasses, fish net gloves, and samples of energy chews. One thing, however, that I witnessed that really turned me off was I saw a young man at the bottom of the stage and the cheerleaders were swarming around him grabbing at something. When I got a closer look I saw that he had a box full of medals and he was trying to get the box open and the girls were pushing and grabbing trying to get one while he was trying to tear it open. My immediate thought was, “Hey, those are for the runners!” I didn’t think it was right to pass those out as freebies and I didn’t know who that guy was or if he was authorized to give them out to the cheerleaders, but I thought it was in poor taste.
Overall, it was a fun event and something I would consider doing again.
