JG's excellent write-up is available and the intro kicks a$$ : "Friday’s inaugural Bahrain Night Half Marathon attracted some of the world’s top half marathoners to a race that offered a staggering $100,000 for the winner, one of the richest first-place prizes in the sport of running. That’s the good news.
The bad news was almost everything else associated with the race, which, despite the money being poured into it, felt like amateur hour from start to finish. In fact, let’s start with the finish, where Ethiopia’s Jemal Yimer, Ethiopia’s half marathon record holder, made a $75,000 mistake in the men’s race."