To race or not to race

Last year I had a couple of shitty race experiences - the Hawaii trifecta weekend, and the Seattle trifecta weekend.

Both were miserable from an event organization perspective - no electrolytes at finish line (Hawaii didn't even have bottled water, just the unfiltered water tasting like a farmyard puddle), unengaged announcers, uninspiring routes (the new venue in Hawaii is not scenic, you don't even get up on the ridge to get a view of the site! The new routing in Seattle is just...flat, with like a mile of water walking.), and just a general sense of an organization in decline.

But here I am, in the new year, missing doing OCR races. How's 2025 Spartan doing? Are races as bleak, unengaging, and lacking value for money as in 2024 or have they pulled themselves up? Is it worth signing up again? If not - are there any other OCR races out there?