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Comments: Start was a bit congested and disorganized with the large amount of racers (this is not a complaint, I'm simply describing what I witnessed). Compounding the issue was the event was a run/walk and not all the walkers placed themselves at the back. It was a bit tricky navigating around the walkers and differing speeds of runners. Took close to .75 miles to find a good groove where I wasn't dodging people or going around others. Felt pretty good overall. Race was well organized and fun with people dressed up in Thanksgiving or Christmas themed race attire. Running with her mom, there was a little girl, maybe 7 years old, who was dressed completely like a turkey and had the Chik-fil-A 'Eat More Chikin' signs on the front and back. Very cute and clever. Santa was driving around in his red convertable VW Bug. Guess his sleigh was in the shop! What would you do differently?: Look at my elapsed time toward the end of the race and not just the mileage. Not sure why I didn't look at my time. If I had looked at my time, I would've seen that I could've probably beaten my PR. As it was, I was 9 seconds off of my PR!! Dummy!  Post race
Warm down: Grabbed a water, 2 orange slices and a cookie and watched other racers finish. There were a fair amount of first-timers, which was really cool to see how extra happy and proud they were to finish. Hung out for a while, just sort of loitering around, then went back to my car for my sweatshirt, then headed back to the finish area. They were posting race results as they got them in, but for some reason the pages for around my time frame were missing. I waited around for a little to see if they would put them up but they didn't. Watched the very first part of awards, then left. I was cold! What limited your ability to perform faster: Happy with performance all except near the end when I didn't look at the total time on my watch and missed out on possibly setting a new PR. Event comments: I will hopefully do this race again next year as long as the family plans allow for it! I've been wanting to do this race for the past 3 years but my turkey day schedule didn't allow for it. Last updated: 2012-11-09 12:00 AM
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Night before: Strongbow, UFO and a Sunset Wheat and watched the Bears play the worst game I've witnessed in a long time. Missed out on winning any prizes at the turkey shoot. :(
Got up, took care of the dogs, ate some oatmeal, dressed and headed to the race. Wasn't sure how the oatmeal was going to be; that is not my typical pre-event meal but it ended up not being an issue. Walk to the registration/packet pick-up was a decent hike from where I parked. Got my packet, went back to the car to drop off shirt and to remove sweatshirt since I was at the race solo (no one to hold stuff). Put number on and headed back to the start area. Stood in line for porta-john, made a comment to the guy in front of me if he thought we'd get through in time because I wasn't feeling too sure we would. We joked about it and while we were chatting, the race announcer told everyone they would be starting the race a bit late since they had so many late entrants. YAY!! As it turned out, I had JUST enough time to take care of business. I was out of the john for about a minute before they started the pre-race talk and blessing/prayer and such.
Walking back and forth from the car (about a 5 minute walk one way)! Some quick stretching during the announcements.