Tyranena Beer Run - RunHalf Marathon


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Lake Mills, Wisconsin
United States
Tyranena Brewing Company
65F / 18C
Sunny
Total Time = 2h 04m 51s
Overall Rank = /
Age Group = middle old
Age Group Rank = 0/
Pre-race routine:

This was supposed to be the Tyranena Half Marathon race report, but, I grabbed the wrong race entry and changed the date. D'OH.

Woke up at 3:50 a.m. to go to work and assist with a computer migration. Leave by 9:45 a.m. at work to get to Lake Mills.
Breakfast was a nanner and about 30 oz. of InfinIT solution.
Event warmup:

Got dressed and chatted with a number of Donks.
Put on both pair of swim goggles, in honor of Tony (2goggs).
Met up with Wavedog, cweninger (Clint) and wife JoeRunner (Terri), AmyJo, Schwimmycoach (faux BT'er ;) ), DJDorkey (I meant DJDavey, typo ya know) ;) , TriDDS (Chris) and wife tri-n-spin (Jeanne) with Chris' Mom and kids, gofishlips (gofishtlp/Tracy) and her son, lrunfit, tall_tri_dad (Pete), jmwebs (Jim), Whizzzzz, MissKelly, Coredump, Schmize and his wife, skavoovie (Dave), and bscharff (Ben).
Run
  • 2h 04m 51s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 09m 32s  min/mile
Comments:

Found a dollar on the road in the first 1/4 - 1/2 mile! It should have been a penny with heads up, then I probably would have had better luck.

Took off a little too quickly and paid for it the final 5 miles.

There was this giant carrot that greeted racers up the last "killer" hill, but, it seemed to favor racers that were Donkeys! I think it went by the name "Deanna". ;)
What would you do differently?:

Not take such a long break after IM and train?
Post race
Warm down:

Talk, hobble back to car, change, and get beer tickets.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

Not take such a long break after IM and train?

Event comments:

The first and last aid stations ran out of gatorade and/or water and/or cups. How stupid is that for a small-town race??
The volunteers couldn't pour fast enough to get the water/gatorade out to the racers. Poor volunteers.

The meat-lasagna with the red sauce was okay. The beer was alright. The participatory medal appears to be getting smaller and smaller with each passing year.
At least the weather was gorgeous, but a little too warm for November and racing-wise!

Hung out with most of the Donks mentioned earlier, and met SSMinnow (Suzy), and Dar89 (Don).

I heard Lara made a presence.

Missing this year was Morey1. Also M.I.A. was Craiggers (he don't love me anymore *sniff* ;) ).




Last updated: 2009-11-09 12:00 AM
Running
02:04:51 | 13.1 miles | 09m 32s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/
Overall: 0/
Performance: Below average
Course: An out and back loop, with a 1/3 of the run on the very flat Glaciel Drumlin trail. The beginning 5 miles had some decent hills, after that was quite flat.
Keeping cool Average Drinking Not enough
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Below average
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 2
Good race? No
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? No
Plenty of drinks? No
Post race activities: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 4