It's always nice to have a good race on your home turf. There's one in my home town every year (marathon, half, and 5k) this time of year and I've done one event or another the past 8 years in a row. I did the half this year.
Have a good long run tomorrow! Sundays are usually my long run days too but this weekend I will not be running as I ran my race last weekend. Now I need to find another one to register for soon...
Oh cool sounds like you basically have a running festival too! I was very happy to learn this race was so close by