Rocktoberfest 1/2 Marathon
As I move into the last phase of my marathon training, I was looking around for a longer race to test my fitness. The Rocktoberfest 1/2 marathon near Rockhill, SC seemed like it would fit my needs very well. The race takes place in the Riverwalk district running from the bike park along surface streets to the Riverwalk Greenway and back. Having never been here before, I was interested to see the area. We start up on the cycling track and run about a mile on it. Then, we hit some surface streets for a couple of more miles before finally hitting the greenway. Most of this was well marked. Although, we did come to a round-a-bout. Here I was a bit confused about which direction to take. Clearly, I could see that we were going to the left. However, this meant crossing over and running the nearly complete circle before exiting back to the road that we were originating. In the end, I did take the long way, but it was begrudgingly. From the description, I knew the greenway section ran alo