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Not What Was Advertised

Unreal how disappointing this was when you're ready for the obstacles shown on the website. Someone was asleep at the wheel. Nothing but mud bogs and no creative "obstacles". I paid for myself & my daughter's and one of daughter's, this was her maiden voyage. My other daughter and I compared it to the one in May in Shasta County that had a ton of obstacles, vendors, several food trucks, admission included a T-shirt, etc.
The big pkg lot with no chairs, one food truck, oh, and water bottle? More like a 6 oz water bag...weak...I was so disappointed and felt ripped off. The website was deceiving and the 3 of us will NOT go back.

Survivor is a joke!

I've ran many races. This was the worst one I have ever seen. Talk about the organizers going cheap. No t-shirts. No live music. Frankly no obstacles other than some mud pits dug by a tractor. No water slide into the lake. No monkey bars over pits, no tire obstacles no ropes course no entry into the Lake Elsinore diamond, this was A Race where the organizers just pocketed the cash and did not deliver. Very disappointed after running this race many times. And what did I get for finishing? A cheap 50 Cent Stamped Out aluminum plate that looks like dog tags that says Survivor on it. Cheesy! Cheap! I don't think Survivor will be around much longer. What a joke. I want my money back. Someone should file a class action for false advertising.

Bad taste

Wow, after running close to 30 mud runs in the past, this was by far the worse one yet. Where were the obstacles? The beginning statement from the Survivor Mud Run says "We created Survivor Mud Run to test your ability to run, climb, jump, crawl, & muscle your way through the most extreme 5k Mud Run Created!" There was nothing to crawl under, jump over, climb up, and muscle my way through. Very disappointed with this event and will NEVER be back again.

BUMMER

I BELIEVE THE ORGANIZERS DELIBERATELY DISAPOINTED THE RUNNERS SO THAT WE NEVER GO BACK AGAIN CAUSE THIS WAS THE WORSE MUD RUN I HAVE EVER RAN. THEY SHOULDNT OF ADVERTISED IT IF THEY WERENT GOING TO GO ALL OUT. I HAD TO PAY FOR MY TSHIRT, THEY GAVE ME A WATER BOTTLE MADE OF CHEAP FLIMSY PLASTIC, AND MY MEDAL IS NOTHING TO TAKE HOME AND BRAGG ABOUT. ILL NEVER DO THIS RUN AGAIN. WHAT A RIP OFF!!! SO WHAT DID THEY DO WITH ALL THE MONEY THEY COLLECTED? IT SURE DIDNT GO ON AN OBSTICLE OR A MEDAL. AND THE TOILETS WERE FREAKIN DISCUSTING. WHILE I WAS RUNNING THE COURSE ALL I HEARD ALL ALONG THE WAY WAS COMPLAINTS AND MAKING FUN OF THE COURSE. SO THATS IT FOR ME, ILL NEVER DO THIS RUN AGAIN. THE ORGANIZERS SHOULD HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED IT WAS GOING TO BE THE FINAL RUN INSTEAD OF LEAVING A "MUDDY" TASTE IN OUR MOUTHS.

Lame

Just mud hole but mostly water in it. No way you can even come close to losing your shoes in the pits. Website advertised all kind
s of obstacles but none were there except mud pits. Says you get a medal but what you actually get is a small little dog tag on a chain. Only one food vendor and a crappy DJ with a very low budget set up. There is no after party. Line for beer was so long that we didn't want 2 wait for it. Never again will do this run.

A Muddy Disapointment

1st thoughts to myself & our group was "Is Survivor in Trouble?" Hardly any people, parking lot empty, 1 yes 1 food truck. Only obstacles were 4-5 hill/walk through ones ONLY! No volunteers watching each section. 1 portable restroom and it was at the end. 1 water station. No tables to chill at anywhere. The metal got smaller then 2 years ago. Dog tag this year! Shirts for PURCHASE ONLY! Lay time we do Survivor. :/

Terrible

I would give it 0 stars if possible. The obstacles were a joke. 90% were small 2 foot hills with little to no mud in them. The one main obstacles (wall climb) had a 15 min line. This race is for kids (my 9 year old could have easily finished it) or beginners that are looking to start out or just do something fun (it really wasn't any fun).

Poorly Planned and Executed

Let me start with the good:
- The runners were all fun
- The venue was stunningly beautiful
- Some of the obstacles were kind of fun
- A cold water shower was available at the end

The bad:
-Everything, and I mean literally everything, was either not thought through or poorly planned
- The line for registration was 2x the length of the race common area as was very slow.
- Instead of helping with registrations or the bag checks (both of which had long lines with people missing their heats), the event organizers would get on the DJ's loudspeaker telling people to buy merchandise
- The course was poorly planned with people getting in huge lines for obstacles... Like literally 3-4 heats of people waiting on line for 4-5 of the obstacles. People ended up skipping parts of the course because nobody wanted to wait 10-20+ minutes for an obstacle that would last 60 seconds.
- The walls were dangerous. The main climbing wall as an example used the wrong kind of rope so your means up and down was this slick rope that had zero grip. I gripped it with everything I had (and I can climb ropes no problem) and I slid down the line like it was nothing.
- And for those like like their race schwag: the 'Survivor water bottle' they say is a race reward is a literal disposable spring water bottle like you would get from a grocery store.
- Most obstacles either lacked volunteers to watch over or the volunteers weren't differentiating themselves from the runners... So if you got hurt or had a problem, perception was that you were SOL

I've run a ton of these events and it would not have been hard for Survivor to hit the ball out of the park here... But they fell REALLY short

Organizers Don't Care

Let me start with the good:
- The runners were all fun
- The venue was stunningly beautiful
- Some of the obstacles were kind of fun
- A cold water shower was available at the end

The bad:
-Everything, and I mean literally everything, was either not thought through or poorly planned
- The line for registration was 2x the length of the race common area as was very slow.
- Instead of helping with registrations or the bag checks (both of which had long lines with people missing their heats), the event organizers would get on the DJ's loudspeaker telling people to buy merchandise
- The course was poorly planned with people getting in huge lines for obstacles... Like literally 3-4 heats of people waiting on line for 4-5 of the obstacles. People ended up skipping parts of the course because nobody wanted to wait 10-20+ minutes for an obstacle that would last 60 seconds.
- The walls were dangerous. The main climbing wall as an example used the wrong kind of rope so your means up and down was this slick rope that had zero grip. I gripped it with everything I had (and I can climb ropes no problem) and I slid down the line like it was nothing.
- And for those like like their race schwag: the 'Survivor water bottle' they say is a race reward is a literal disposable spring water bottle like you would get from a grocery store.
- Most obstacles either lacked volunteers to watch over or the volunteers weren't differentiating themselves from the runners... So if you got hurt or had a problem, perception was that you were SOL

I've run a ton of these events and it would not have been hard for Survivor to hit the ball out of the park here... But they fell REALLY short

This run was a disappointment. The only obstacles were small mud pits dug out throughout the course and a big slide. There were not 20+ obstacles as advertised, unless they were counting each small pit. I would NOT do this run again.