The course was beautiful. You get to run along the beach and see a Fort, which has a lot of history. The trees create a very nice shade to keep you out of harms way of the sun. You also get to run along the beach. This year the rain from the day before made it easy to run and it felt hard packed. The navigation of the course is fairly easy. There are not too many obstacles to have to run over or under. However, it is not flat. The trail is either going up or going down. The one section of trail that is flat comes with warning signs for alligator crossing. I didn't get to encounter any alligators. The snakes where also missing for the 50 miler. They may have come out at night, I was passed out before then. The support was excellent. This included fellow runners/pacers/and volunteers. Find something you like about the pier. It is going to feel like the longest section of the race. You will do better if you don't dread it.
Florida has a great set of ultra runners, and I am thinking next year I am going to be doing a lot more in Florida. I am also going to include more Oleta trail running before the race. Running in the Everglades didn't cut it for running a hilly course. It sure helped with heat training. I didn't feel nearly as hot as Palm 100K in March.
Note for future races: DO NOT be on antibiotics if running a 50 miler that is over your limit. This is unless you think it is fun to spend a couple of days in the hospital for kidney failure and have nothing more than a DNF with 2.5 miles to go. Some may say the kidney failure was the heat. I am having a hard time with this, because I didn't feel hot and when I got ice, it didn't make me feel much better. I think my muscles where just beat, then adding a little dehydration didn't help the matter.
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