Sevenhills running event: over 11.000 entries already!

This weekend I will determine how this autumn will look like in terms of running events. My autumn season always ends with the Zevenheuvelenloop (or Sevenhillsrun) in November. A feew weeks ago I received an e-mail and flyer from the organisation and yesterday I regsitered myself on the website!
Lets do some marketing: I am very enthousiastic about this event! Very well organized, traintickets for a reduced price, good facillities, a very well controlled start reducing the numbers of runners on the track, good atmosphere and although often a bit cold, usually the weather is OK. The large number of participants might be an illustration of the quality of this event: Over 20.000 and according to my starting number they are alreadyo ver 11.000 entrants for this years event. Way to go! Click here for the route on mapmyrun

In order to testify that I am not paid to write such a positive review some observations on the usability of the website because it is not designed with usability in mind. The clikcing starts after entering the url in yourbrowser:

1. a well designed landingpage welcome you where you have to choose between the run and the walking event (see image below),
2. you enter a indexpage where againa you have to choose between running and walking and hidden in the text the link to the entryform,
3. however you do not come to the entry form, you end up on a page with a lot of information and al the way to the bottom you find a button to enter 'klik hier als je wilt inschrijven',
4. a pop-up screen opens which is to small because the real relevant button to start the registraiotn porcess is hidden below so you have to scroll to find it. Besides it look completely different form the previous buttons. You have just entered step 1 of 11 to register,
5. in step 2 of 11 again you have to choose betweend the run and the walkingevent. So I had to choose three times that i wantend to register myself and two times I had to choose between running and walking. From my proffesional point of view wheer I advise on usability and customer experience a place some question marks at this approach. So here they are: ??????

images related to point 1, 2 and 5: