The volunteers were great! The Leslie Street Spit was hot! Otherwise, it was a fantastic day and a great race.

Better time and distance information on the half-marathon course would have been better. Otherwise excellent!

What began as a lovely experience ended in great frustration (and discomfort) for several of us 1/2 marathon walkers:

1. Your website says that the course would be reopened to vehicular traffic at 1:00 pm. Can someone explain why police told us, then forced us, to use the bicycle path at 10:40 am, which was a good 9 kms from the finish line??

2. Doesn't it make sense that WALKING 1/2 marathoners might be out there a lot longer than runners? So, whose ill-thought decision was it to pack up ALL of the water stations on the return half, leaving a bunch of dehydrating participants far from any source of liquid??

3. It was a nice touch to remove the orange pylons AND any marathon personnel after marker 15 kms. This left a bunch of us with absolutely no clue about finding the rest of the course (especially since all pylons, markers, personnel had now disappeared). We had no choice but to depend on bad advice from either police or Sunday strollers.

So, in the 3 areas noted above, the organizers/promoters of this marathon have misrepresented the event. Those of us who were adversely affected by either thoughtlessness or negligence on the part of the marathon organizers should be getting much more than a medal - we should be getting apologies AND our registration fees back!!

On the plus side, however, I thank the expo people who were SUPER-organized and pleasant when I picked up my race package - they made me feel very special about my first-ever race!

Very fast and fun course that lacked spectators in certain parts. Otherwise, was fun and well organized.

Of the two races in Toronto, the CIM (Toronto Marathon) and the Waterfront, this is the better race.

Neither are really visually stunning. The spectators are very sparse at both. However, the end of the CIM is very discouraging. Starting with the turn of Bayview into a desolate industrial area and the nasty (small but long) hill up to the finished line really make me prefer this Waterfront Marathon.

Those of us who chose to walk the half-marathon were treated like second-class citizens. According to the marathon website, the route was supposed to be open to us until 1:30 pm. (We asked many officials, but no one seemed to know the cut-off time.) Unfortunately, by 10:45 we were being told to get off the road and by 11:15 traffic was allowed back onto the street. It feels as though our efforts were not appreciated. Our only consolation is that we raised money for a good cause, but because of the way we were treated we are unlikely to participate again.

The flyer and the online registration should have the same information. Pick-up hours were different on each which caused a problem on Friday night. The person on the door was not even apologetic. All he kept saying was, "There's nothing I can do". No "sorry" or anything. There were people there at 8:15 pm and it was closed. Online it said until 9:00 pm.

As the spouse of a participant, I was impressed with the overall event and the caliber of the volunteers. For the future, I'd suggest that you provide the participants with a plastic bag to hold the great fruit and drinks being offered. In the excitement of the finish, many want the nurishment but not at the time it is being offered.

A minor comment from an interested observer.

Awesome job! Great race; you guys should be organizing the TO Marathon.

The course was well marked and quite flat, which made it very pleasant to run. The spectators on course were very supportive and water stations were very well run. However, there didn't appear to be power-gels anywhere - they may have been available but I didn't see anyone handing them out. Also, kilometer markers were to be frequent; however, there were only two that were plainly visible, and both said 10K and were about 3 km apart!!!!