WIPEOUTRUN Baltimore

On your mark. get set.GO! FUN FUN FUN! I enjoyed the WIPEOUT Run so much last year, that I had to sign up again! It’s a great event to have a group of friends complete together. This 5K is on the pricey side (over $ 60 then the price increases) but it has early bird pricing and becomes avaliable on Groupon a couple of weeks before the race.
You pick up your package the day before the event (includes your T-​shirt and numbered bib). If you don’t pick it up the day before you can either have it mailed you or pick it up the day of for any extra expense of $ 5. They have a bag check at the race to hold your extra items.
The obstacles are not too crazy (like the show) but some are challenging like the wrecking ball, climbing wall and big ball bounce. Half of them include water, but nothing requires that you know how to swim, so non-​swimmers will be fine. Make sure to bring a change of clothes because you will get wet!

The race is extremely organized (unlike the Electric 5K Run) and there is hardly any waiting time at each obstacle. I will definetly do it again!
The photo crew takes pictures that are associated with your bib number. Make sure to pin that tightly to your shirt or costume. It will make it easier to locate your photos when they become avaliable. Also I would suggest a friend, that is not in the race, follow your team around to get some action shots. The WIPEOUT crew takes great pictures but if you want to purchase all of them it can get expensive ($ 4 – 6 per photo).
***Words of caution — Do not wear expensive sunglasses to this race. They may become lost or broken. And I’m sure you don’t want that to happen.***

Great event! Lots of fun with my team and fun courses. The wait to get our starter kit was not long and none of the obstacles were backed up except for the wrecking ball. They also had emergency medical personnel on site. Most of the employees were cheerful and very professional. There was enough «breaks,» bathrooms, and water stations between obstacles. Parking was $ 10 and there was plenty of room.
With that said, here are some downsides:
1) you must pay a FULL registration and entry fee PLUS an administrative fee to transfer a ticket. Makes it harder to buy in advance. Two of our team members were unable to transfer the tickets for that reason!
2) photos were supposed to be available 3 days after; however, each time you check the site it’s pushed back one day.
3) toilets were out of toilet paper by 9:30 am. Bring ur own paper ladies (and gents!)
I would definitely do the run again next year since the upside is they are very organized and it was a great team builder. The only thing to consider is when you pay, you better be prepares to go or its $ 60 + $ 10 – 15 in admin costs you lose out on. There is really no point in transferring the tickets unless they are 100% Sold out. (Which they do «sell out» to encourage you to buy but then add tons more waves later on.)

This run was a blast! Great team building and the backups weren’t nearly as long as I thought they would be. Fun obstacles and very friendly charity crew! Thanks Wipeout

I LOVED THIS EVENT!!! This event was everything I hoped it would be. As we entered the city there were plenty of signs directing us to parking near the event site. We knew there would be water involved in the race, so we all packed extra clothes to change into, and I’m glad we did because it was chilly. We arrived an hour before our noon start time. There was no line to check in, we picked up our bibs and t-​shirts, and then dropped off our bags with our dry clothes at the bag check. The bag check area was organized which made dropping off and picking up items a breeze. The one thing I didn’t like was the congested group of people lined up at the starting gate to filter into the «pit» area where a group of no more than 75 will enter to begin the race. There were a couple of hundred people it seems for our start time and this massive group had to narrow down and squeeze in the entrance gate which was only wide enough for 2 – 3 people to enter at a time, so people are stepping on toes and getting separated from their teams… but we managed to get through it eventually. As we started the race, the first thing we had to conquer before getting to the obstacles, was the bridge… decent incline which wasn’t so bad at the beginning, but was a butt kicker halfway through the race when you had to come back over it to get to the second half of the race. The obstacles were amazing; some were challenging and others were just all out fun! We got soaked and it was a little chilly, but the more we ran our bodies started to heat up. The volunteers throughout the course were friendly and encouraging.
It’s an event that anybody can enjoy regardless of your athletic abilities. You can walk the course and you have the option of skipping obstacles that are too difficult… but I would highly recommend that you try all of them because they make the experience that much more memorable, and go with a group of friends and just laugh and have a good time doing this together. We had some faster and some slower runners in our group, but we encouraged each other. The ones that made it to the obstacles first, waited for the rest of the group so we could all go through the obstacles together, because watching each other go through the obstacles is part of the fun. Overall it was an excellent event and I highly recommend it to friends. I enjoyed it so much that I will be participating in the one coming to Washington, DC in a couple of weeks!!!

Meh. More complaints than praises.
Pre-​race: one packet pick-​up location. Pathetic, non existent packet. The only freebies were the safety pins for the racing bibs! Plain-​Jane white t-​shirt that went in a plastic Sports Authority store bag. Not even a reusable bag with freebies or promotions.
Expensive «merch» table that they hustled you to. Way over-​priced. $ 10 for a headband (that should have been free).
Race day: Not really at Camden Yards. Might as well have said it was at the Ravens Stadium… but wait, better description is that it was in the freaking parking lot between the stadiums!
Hmmm…No sponsors at this race=no vendors, no post-​race food, no freebies, nothing!
No organization to the «waves». Just kinda joined in the groups forming at the gates. No official clock. No mile-​markers.
Here’s some credit: obstacles were fun and exciting. One slide was down and they did a good job about reopening in a timely fashion.
Post-​race: after the «World’s Largest Slide», it was kinda depressing to finish. Foam flying only bought me seconds of joy, but then that’s it. You walk back into the lot wet, dazed, thirsty, without much else. 1 sad little food vendor. Lame-​looking beer garden. Again, no sponsors… no post-​race snacks or even a banana to peel and eat!
After all that (or very little of) and with a pricy race fee of $ 60, makes me wonder just how much they truly donate to the Challenged Athletes Foundation and pocket for themselves. I’ll pass on the next ROC Race.

What a great activity. Being able to casually jog the course with friends and act like a kid again on the obstacles made this a blast. Add a few more obstacles and this couldn’t get much better. I recommend every able-​bodied adult looking for laughs and fun to give it a shot.

Just when I thought the ROC race was too easy I came upon the wrecking ball challenge. By far my favorite obstacle of the entire race. I wish I could do it again! The race kept surprising me at every corner. Fun times!

I love to compete and I run 1 or 2 races every weekend, including some obstacle course mud runs. I have to say, the volunteers at this event were some of the best I have ever encountered. They were all helpful and nice and seemed to really take their jobs seriously. The layout of the obstacles was good and having it at Camden Yards was cool. It is not timed and more of a fun run/​Color Run type of atmosphere so any runners who want to challenge themselves should sign up for the early heats before traffic jams form at the obstacles. Or it is a great one to do with a big group or your family and just be silly and have fun.

So incredibly fun! I already can’t wait to do it again– this was the most fun I’ve had in a long time!!!

I only take time to write reviews when things are really amazing, or really horrible, and the Roc 5k Race was AMAZING!
I personally loathe running, and have never run a 5k, so I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. But the race was a blast, and was a fun way to get a first time racer into the spirit, especially since it’s broken up with super fun obstacles that you would see on WIPE OUT.
The whole event was very well organized, staff was super friendly, helpful and encouraging, music was awesome, and they had staff cheering you on through various points along the race. All the lines moved pretty quickly, for the Baltimore race to be the first this year, they were already running like a well-​oiled machine!
Although I didn’t make it across without falling in, despite having come up with an awesome plan to make it across, the wrecking ball was so much fun! I also really loved the slides, one with a tube that empties into a little pool and the other at the finish line. The foam party at the end was the icing on the cake!
So if you are considering this, despite it being a lot more expensive than most 5k’s, KNOW that nothing about this 5k is average! It definitely got me excited about running, and I will definitely do it again. I HIGHLY reccomend it!

Whew! A day later and I am super sore from the ROC Race. And I have a huge bruise on my leg, but I can’t remember how it got there. But I’m not complaining… I’m actually proud of my battle wounds! This 5K obstacle course was sooooo fun… even more fun than Run or Dye 5K I did last year (or any of those other cornstarch-​dye races… there are so many of them!) We had 20 people in our group and we broke up into smaller groups based on physical endurance… basically, the slow people got left as they walked while the rest of us managed to at least jog from obstacle to obstacle. The very first obstacle included water, so we practically ran the whole race with wet clothes and shoes! There were actually several obstacles that included water and it was a pity that the weather was so chilly. We all had an amazing time challenging ourselves physically, being competitive, and laughing the whole time.
The foam party at the end was fun, but we ended up freezing our behinds off afterward because it was so windy and chilly outside. The hype man at the starting line was pretty funny also. My girls and I wore tutus and fringed our ROC race shirts, but I enjoyed seeing other people in costume. Next time, we’ll have to do costumes. Many of us are actually looking forward to doing it again soon.
P. S. The wrecking ball didn’t knock me into the water! i was so proud of myself for making it through that obstacle!