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  • Organised?Yes
  • Events on time?Yes

  • Lots of volunteers to help?Yes
  • Plenty of drink stations?Yes

  • Post race activities? Good
  • Overall course based on my ability: Just right

  • Comments: This is a good race. They have various student associations running the water/aid stations. The racers get to vote on their favorite station and the one with the most votes gets $500, 2nd gets $250 and 3rd gets $100. This one of the few races in the area (5Ks) that are mostly hills. My goal was to beat my time from last year. I ran in something horrible like 45 minutes (actually 40:42). It was ungodly HOT (~95 at 7 am with matching humidity and I had not trained enough or given enough thought to the hills in that area. This year I was better prepared but still havelots of work to do. It was still humid this morning but at least it wasn't unbearably hot! I've got to figure hot how to run these races without walking. I can run entire races when they are flat routes but when there are more than 2 hills (not little bumps) I have a hard time sustaining my mental toughness to finish the race on a strong note. This is one that I want to keep doing in order to get my speed to where
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