That was a great race report! It sounds like fun and more and more it looks like smaller races are the way to go.

How did the 50k differ from the marathon? It's 4 miles over (+/- a bit, right?) but I'm thinking those last miles might make a huge difference I'm looking at it for the future...I think it's on the list of things to do.

As far as blisters go, I run in these: http://www.wrightsock.com/ Some depends on the shoes but I've never had horrible blisters from the wrightsocks and I am prone to blisters.

Congrats!!! Would you do it again?