| Race | Team Rating | Recommend? | Pros | Cons |
Reach the Beach
New Hampshire | | Yes | - Excellent finishing line celebration (free meal, beer, entertainment)
- Enthusiastic, supportive, competent volunteers
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Red Rock Moab
Utah | | Yes | - Extraordinary race director
- Stunning course scenery | - No awards for top teams |
Rouge-Orleans
Louisiana | | No | - Scheduled during the beginning of Mardi Gras | - Boring course
- Lack of support from locals (some chased runners off course)
- Poor air quality
- Few port-a-potties
- No volunteers/staff at transition areas |
Red Rock Zion
Utah | | Yes | - Extraordinary race director
- Stunning course scenery | - No awards for top teams
- No free food offered at finish
- Rumors of cheating committed by multiple teams |
Sinister 7
Alberta, Canada | 8.5 | Yes | - Extraordinary race director
- Beautiful, challenging course
- Great post-race celebration
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Ragnar Chicago
Illinois | 6 | Yes | - Nice awards for top teams and all teams (finishing medal is a bottle opener)
- Flat and fast course
| - No free food offered at finish
- Terrible weather (wet & cold)
- Required volunteers had difficulty signing up for a post online; RD response was unfriendly |
Bourbon Chase
Kentucky | 9.5 | Yes | - Our team's favorite race
- Extraordinary race director
- Amazing finishing line celebration
- Impressive package of awards for top teams | - Narrow shoulders |
Canadian Death Race
Alberta, Canada | 7 | Yes to teams
No to soloists | - Beautiful, challenging course | - High registration fee & overall costs
- Acrimonious race director
- Race started late
- Rules changed for soloists during race |
Wild West Relay
Colorado | 8 | Yes | - Extraordinary race director
- Challenging, high-altitude course with extreme elevation changes
- Free meal at finish
- Enthusiastic, supportive, competent volunteers | - Finish was rather anticlimactic, after eating meal, waited a long time for awards ceremony (no entertainment while waiting) |
Hood-to-Coast
Oregon | 5 | No | - Close interaction with other teams, who were all extremely friendly | - Starting time too late, race organization refused to respond to emails requesting change in starting time
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River-to-River
Illinois | 9 | Yes | - Extraordinary race director
- Low registration fee
- Lovely, low traffic course
- Enthusiastic, supportive, competent volunteers | - Race under high demand, admittance requires registering withing minutes of the form being posted online |
