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Comments: My left thigh started acting up again and I had to hobble on the last mile. Pushing the jogger stroller didn't help, but I don't know what to change yet. I ran again on tuesday (today) and felt fine. sheesh What would you do differently?: Practice more with the jogger stroller. Post race
Warm down: Walked around and tried running a short distance without the stroller to see what was up with my leg. Then ate some bananas, oranges, bagels, etc and had a sports drink. What limited your ability to perform faster: Leg issues. Event comments: Aside from the 4.5k being short and the bus issues (they had 7-8 of them by the time the race was over to get everyone back to their cars) this was an AWESOME event! We'll definitely do it again next year. Great people, great cause, and a lot of fun. Kyle and Patty Petty (nascar fame) run the camp and they were high fiving all the finishers at the finish line. Everyone (even my kids) got a nice finishers medal. The shirts were very nice. The bib #'s were the best I've seen yet (personalized if you signed up early enough). There were hunderds of volunteers all over the place. The local HS and MS cheerleaders were stationed around the half and 4.5k course cheering people on (my son liked that). Great time! Last updated: 2006-11-06 12:00 AM
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The was a GREAT event! But... it was the inagural one and they had a few glitches. The Victory Junction Gang Camp is located in rural NC and isn't designed for 800 visitors. So they started the half marathon at the local middle school at 10:00 and then bused all the 4.5k participants and everyones families to the camp for the 11:00 start. Well... 2 of the 3 charter buses they rented broke down. Logistics were a nightmare and a lot of folks didn't get to the camp until 11:30-11:45. We were lucky with our strollers and kids and got on a small camp bus and made it for the start (delayed till around 11:25 to accomodate more people).
I didn't really get a good warmup since we were running late, worrying about the kids (our first race with the kiddies and jogger strollers), and just looking around in awe at the camp (a great place).