Metro Dash

STAY AWAY FROM METRO DASH! They are dishonest, and currently refuse to refund over $ 750 they owe me after canceling a race.
I am a CrossFit trainer in Utah, and when we heard about the Metro Dash (through Facebook advertising, similar to other reviewers) several of us thought it would be fun to do it. Kind of like a longer version of a CrossFit workout. There was a group of 20 people who signed up from our affiliate, a total of $ 758 in registrations.
We got an email from Metro Dash on July 18 indicating that they had only 120 entrants, and needed at least 125 more within two days (by July 20) to hold the race. We got another email on Wednesday, July 20 that said:
«SLC Athletes,
Unfortunatley, we’ve had to cancel the Metro Dash SLC race. Cancellation is due to extremely low attendance, since our last email we have only had 12 additional registrations. We are as disappointed as you are, as we were looking forward to the SLC race.
Full refunds will be provided to all ticket purchasers. Depending on your form of payment you will either receive a credit back onto your credit card or you will receive a check in the mail to the address you provided (*please note if you registered early through our old
registration system you will be receiving a refund check). Refunds typically take 15 – 20 business days to process.
If you are a die-​hard Metro Dash athlete we will be in Denver, Co this Saturday 7÷23÷11. If you’re up for travelling, we can transfer your registration to the Denver race. If you’re interested please send an email to
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Thanks for your understanding,
Metro Dash HQ»
Since that time, it has been 81 business days, and despite my repeated attempts to contact them, I keep getting the message that there have been «unforseen complications» and they have been as yet unable to issue the refund. I know that they continue to hold races (I see it on their FB page), and continue to collect money from other participants, so I am pretty skeptical about their excuses of not being able to refund the money. Either they don’t have the money (which means they have a very poor business model, because there is money coming in and they still can’t issue the refund, or they simply refuse to issue the refund.

I had such a good time at Tough Mudder in Georgia, I was looking for a comparable event. Facebook knew this and honed on their online marketing to bring up Metro Dash (darn you internet spam!!!).
The Metro Dash is completely different than Tough Mudder. Metro Dash is a sprint which will last a max of 15 minutes where as Tough Mudder is an endurance race that will take 2 hours plus to finish.
One thing that did bring me disappointment is that Metro Dash stated that they were holding event at Turner Field Parking lot in Atlanta. The week before the event takes places, they were like, «Oh sorry… it’s going to be held at the Town Center at Cobb.» BOOOO!!! I brought people to take pictures and I would much rather have the back drop of Turner Field and the Atlanta skyline than a boring mall.
Anyways, they had a good DJ playing good music to get you pumped up to do it. They need to keep that.
Their facebook page said «30 insane obstacle courses» but they seemed easier than what I anticipated. They have 30 obstacles back to back from climbing a ladder, jumping over walls, pushing weighted sleds, flipping tires, carrying medicine balls, monkey bars, and crawling under stuff. I prepared and worked out for this event and I did it in under 8 minutes. If you follow their workout online, you should be able to do it easily. If you don’t prepare, you’ll struggle a bit.
Overall, I had fun at the event, lots of fun people, good looking girls, and they even accommodated my friend and let him start early because the event was delayed an hour and he had a flight to catch. But with the change of venue and the obstacle course being easier than expected. I’d give it a 3.