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Comments: This was quite possibly the most frustrating race I've ever done. When we signed up for this race, I was a much slower runner and seeded myself according to what I thought my finish time was going to be. Well, because of that I don't think we ever got any clear running room to even get into a rhythm. There was so much starting, stopping, having to suddenly step laterally to either get out of the way of someone or to try and get by them. At times it felt like there was more lateral movement going on than any actual forward progress. It was a never-ending swarm of people. Granted, they were all quite jovial and dressed up in their teams colours, so that was great fun - and the slip and slide idea would have been great had the weather co-operated, but there was just NO room to actually run. I think I could have done this in at least 5-8 minutes faster, so I was really quite disappointed by this time. I had wanted some definitive proof that I have improved my running, and this was just NOT the place to have that happen. What would you do differently?: Seed myself higher - the insanely huge number of people that I ran by, around, and almost over in one or two cases leads me to believe that I could put myself way closer to the front to try and have some room to actually run.  Post race
Warm down: Get into the massive corral of people to get water, Gatorade, crackers,pretzels, bananas, medals, more water, more bananas... c'mon people, let's keep this MOVING... and then someone did the worst crop dusting ever. No, it wasn't me, but if it HAD been me, I'd actually be proud of that sucker. As it was, I needed a gas mask. As I'm not a beer drinker, and it was 8am I decided to pass on the beer tent to head home, do some core and shower before the Crownys came to pick us up to go wine tasting for the afternoon. :) What limited your ability to perform faster: The other 7,268 people around me. Event comments: They really did a good job of having a lot of stuff for after the race. Bands, that bean bag throwing game, bouncy castles, beer tent, etc. Though by the time my race was over, I just wanted to get home! Last updated: 2013-06-18 12:00 AM
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Woke up at 6am and realized that it was going to be a colder day than I was hoping for, the temps took a nose dive over the weekend with a high of 16C? What the HELL was that? Oh well, put on longer running tights, the race shirt (which I NEVER do, but as I don't have a whole lot of Nebraska running gear, I decided to wear the damn race shirt even though I hate wearing things with sleeves when running) and my old comfortable running shoes and headed out.
There was no 'warm-up' to speak of unless you could 8,000 people standing around shivering. I'm glad that we live about 10 blocks from the start of this thing so we did a bit of jogging on the way over to TRY and get the legs loosened up a bit. It never really worked.
Tony was only signed up for the 5km, but according to his marathon training plan he was supposed to do at least 10miles today and figured that he would just do both the 10k and then the 5k as we *should* be done in time for him to get to the start corral for the next race.
And... more shivering.