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Comments: I was running with my cousin who is really more like my brother as we grew up together and even lived together a bit growing up. It was his first Half marry and he had not yet run that distance. I started out wanting to finish in 2;15 but found running with him more rewarding. Then about mile 2 or 3 he got bad blisters and skipped the aid station at mile 4 tinking they would not be a problem. But they began to hurt really bad so we had to walk a bit every other mile to ease his pain. Then our pace slowed. I had to pee at mile 8 1/2. We finally found anoter aid station at mile 10 1/2 so we stopped to have them wrap his foot. This took some time. Plus i was worrying about him because i could hear him wince in pain and when he wasnt doing that his ipod was so loud e couldnt hear me make comments or try to make idle chit chat. I like the idle chit chat, it passes the time. After that it was good exceppt it had been mentally challenging the whole time and all teh walk breaks kinda threw me off and messed up my concetnration. Therefore, i started feeling the pain at mile 11 in my legs and could not ignore it at that point. I siked myself out and my pace slowed even more. Mile 12 was very painful! But then i saw Greg cuz he was like lightning and had been done for aout 30 minutes and he cheered us on. That gave me some motivation. All in all, i feel like i did the right thing waiting for my cousin. It was a special expereince for me running with him and we got to cross the finish line together. I hope it is a good picture.:) What would you do differently?: I think for this race i would not have done anything differently. I feel great about this race and my run performance. But maybe could have just walked a bit less and did a very slow jog to stay with my cousin.  Post race
Warm down: Walked around looking for greg. Then went to the hospitality suite for Juice Plus and got a beer! It was sooooo good. Stayed there for a bit then walked to the car. We had Barbecue lunch after that!! What limited your ability to perform faster: My conscience. Event comments: This race was extremely well organized and supported. There were tons of volunteers and water stations. Although only one station with GU. At mile 12 they ran out of cups so we had to use our hands or re-use other cups. That was gross. Otherwise it was aweseom. I loved finishing inside Autozone park. I will definitly do this race again. Last updated: 2007-06-18 12:00 AM
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Age Group = 30-34
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Spent the night with my cousin and his wife. Their house is in downtown memphis so it was a short drive to the race site. The night before we went to a sponsored dinner at the Target House, which is part of St. Jude hopsital where families stay. That was pretty great. The morning of we woke up, got dressed, and made our way to a parking garage and then to strbucks. I ate a clif bar and drnak half a cup of coffee. Made our way to the srat area. This was a corrall and wave start. We walked around a bit then made our way to our corrall.
Streched a bit, walked from parking garage and then to starbucks then to race site. Mostly just stretched and tried not to get siked out by the other 9,999 people out there.