People were upset because one thing had been advertised (and signed up for) and another delivered. <br /><br />Going from 5K to 8K...the course is almost twice as long. What if that was supposed to be their first OCR? What if they&#39;re not as far along in their fitness journey as you or I and a 5K OCR is a huge struggle/achievement? Nearly doubling that distance is a big deal. We don&#39;t know everyone&#39;s story, and it&#39;s not for us to judge. It&#39;s also CERTAINLY not for us to say someone who&#39;s upset about doing double the distance shouldn&#39;t be doing an OCR in general. <br /><br />If I were signed up for a half-marathon, which I was prepared to take on...and all of a sudden i was told it was going to be a 20 miler instead...Yeah, I&#39;d be upset. But to have an 50 Mile Ultramarathoner tell me it&#39;s only a 7 mile difference and I shouldn&#39;t be running road races at all because that upset me? That wouldn&#39;t fly. Same thing...it&#39;s all relative.<br /><br />And to be perfectly honest...having elites do the same course twice just for more distance...is kind of lame when you&#39;ve already had a unique 15K course. <br /><br />The Sunday drops...I totally understand. A shame that they set out advertising their season as having options that people planned around only to have that option dropped...but it makes sense.