Kiwanis Mease Midnight Run - Run10k

Started out with the top 50, but lost places as I went. I was fine for the first mile and a half, but then my chest started tightening up, and I started slowing down. It felt awful. Took a gel at Mile 2, and again at Mile 3. Didn't feel that usual pump I get from taking a gel. At Mile 4, I just wanted to be done. I wound up running with a girl who was clipping along at what I thought was a great pace (it felt fast) but when I got to Mile 5 it was only 7:40 pace...it felt MUCH faster which meant I wasn't doing what I could have been doing. I wound up losing 5th place hardware by 13 seconds when the 5th place guy got ahead of me just about a quarter mile before the end of the race. I was very disappointed in this race because I felt like no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get a full breath in to give myself that extra burst of energy I needed. Even taking the gels didn't work. I was frustrated that I got edged out of hardware in the last quarter mile of the race. Oh well. Next time.

BE ABLE TO EFFING BREATHE.

Waited for Betsy and G to finish, pouted, stewed. I was happy for Betsy though, who managed to squeak out a 5th place!! YAY BETS! When we were all done, we all parted, went home and immediately fell asleep. It was 230am!!


My stupid lungs.


Yeah they give you a t-shirt, and some goodies, but overall, it's just a real stripped down race. It's cheap though, so that's a plus. 20 bux for a 10K is mostly unheard of these days.

One thing I'll say is that they need to chip this race. It's way unfair when 1000 people are starting a race, you may have run a faster race than someone by 10 seconds, but started 20 seconds behind. Chipping makes it fair. That's how it SHOULD be.