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Comments: My wave was the last one (I was super honest with my seeding prediction) and the announcer had some fun with the "party people in the back" - then I was crossing the start line! Really fun start with tons of spectators at the beginning and a beautiful sunrise behind us. Temperature was right at 60 degrees and my wardrobe was perfect (capri leggings and a tank). I was determined to NOT start off the race walking up the hills, so I chugged my little legs around and around up the hills. Victory until mile 4, when I gave in and walked the 2nd half of one. There were prizes for the top 100 racers who ran DOWN Cardiac Hill the fastest, I guess in years past the course has gone UP this hill. It's almost a mile long. Crazy. Felt great most of the way, just the lingering fatigue in my legs from multiple high volume run weeks. Exactly what I needed to feel for Ragnar training! At mile 6, I took a Clif Shot gel and ate most of it. Why not. At some point, the course took us through Piedmont Park, which is where Music Midtown was and where I saw Bruno Mars among others - it looked soooo totally different without the stages set up. Fun to run through it though. The last two miles I was walking up more of the hills (see elevation profile in my blog today; 3,000+ ft elevation gain) but there was a lovely, long downhill in the last mile. What goes up must come down, I kept thinking to myself. In the last half mile, I was tempted to walk for a bit (everyone else around me was), but made myself keep running. I really enjoyed coming into the finish chute and crossing that finish line, so much fun! I love races! What would you do differently?: Nothing - this was a training run for Ragnar next month so ran a very normal pace for me.  Post race
Warm down: Got my SWEET medal (it spins!), a Clif Bar, a paper jacket thing and a Gatorade. Took a photo and texted my fam. As I was trying to find my parking garage entrance, I decided to chill for a few minutes in the main park/square area where the DJ was hyping everyone up and people were chilling out. Atlantic Station is a pretty cool place. What limited your ability to perform faster: High volume training. Event comments: GREAT race in the heart of ATL. Free parking, superb time of year, fun shirt and medal. Last updated: 2017-09-13 12:00 AM
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My first race since moving to Atlanta! Treated this as a training run for the Ragnar Relay (19 miles) next month, and I had run 8 miles yesterday. Those 8 miles felt harder than they should have, and left my legs feeling like I'd ran a race! So, I knew I'd be taking it a little easy today.
Alarm went off at 4:45 a.m. as the race organizers stressed over and over to arrive by 6 a.m. so you weren't sitting on the off-ramp when the race started. So glad I did this, because even at 5:45 a.m. I sat on the off ramp for a good 10 minutes! In the parking garage I ate my bagel, drank my coffee and listened to some music. At 6:30 I headed to the race start, but my parking spot was literally just below it, and now that I knew where it was I figured I could go back in the warm car for 30 more minutes.
Just before 7 a.m. I headed back up to the starting line and got into my coralle. Did some light stretching to ease the tension in my legs from yesterday.