Boilermaker 15K Road Race - Run15k

Perfect weather for a run at 60F and sunny, the coolest ever for the 32 years of this event. I dumped water on my head a 2 or 3 times times for a mental shakeup.

To do this race again I'm going to have to lie about my seeding time to move up in the field at the start. I swear I ran an extra 0.1 mile for the first 3 miles dodging people that had no business being were they were. However, I'm still not sure how they do the groupings for the race on the seedings, not sure what it would take to move up.

I was really jammed up between mile 3-4 going up the hill at the golf course when it narrowed down. On the way down I actually ran on the grass of the GC following a few others as the pavement was bothering my back and it was free from slower runners.

Any way, it was a great race and I loved the atmosphere along the whole 9.33 mile course!

Move up in the seedings so the first 3 miles aren't as hectic. Fight more on the 3-4 mile hill and I let mile 6-7 get to my head, I should have been faster than those splits.

None special needed, ran a bit too "easy", Beer and music with some food at the event party afterward was a great time.

Ran into Bill Rodgers up near the band stage and got his autograph on my race bib. We talked for a bit and when he noticed I was from Melbourne FL he brought up the Melbourne Marathon which he was the guest of honor for at the inaugural event in Feb 09. He stated he really liked the race and the area and is looking forward to being back in 2010 for the next one.


Was totally unfamiliar with the race course and left ~20-30 sec per mile on several of the mile intervals, less on others.


Next year my HS friend and I are talking about going to go head to head as I put up the friendly challenge, of course with her being so competitive it was a no delay "your on" so lets see where it goes! She did a 63 min run back in her mid 20's on this course and ran with her husband this year.