This race was more or less a "C" race for me. We kinda took this race in stride of the rest of the year's training for Kona and didn't try to peak for this race at all. This was my first run in my Zoot Ultra TT flats and I was excited to race in them for the first time.

Anyways, I still had a goal in mind but new it was going to be tough with the run training problems I've been having lately (see below). The gun shot off and we all took off. Of course, the first mile was too fast, but felt fine. I was running behind or side-by-side the lead women for a while which was pretty cool. One of them really needed a shower though. Stinky! Thankfully she dropped back pretty quickly.

Shortly after that I settled in near race pace and pounded em out. Heart rate was near red-lined most of the way though the effort didn't feel as hard. This was kinda expected as we didn't do much 1/2 marathon goal pace training. Downed a Roctane at mi 6.

Around mile 8-9 I dropped off pace a bit and decided to just sit tight and hold around 6s for the rest of the way. I was fine with that so I clipped those off one by one.

The last mile and some in was pretty tough. The last turn before Lambeau Field is about a mile West-ward...directly in the headwind that was increasing throughout the day. I was basically alone by then and no one to run behind. Increasing pace was tough during this last mile and a side-stitch grabbed hold of my guts.

I turned into Lambeau, barely able to breath with the side-stitch on me full force. Some things you just gotta suck it up and deal. Finished strong and took what the day gave me. Pretty good - 27th OA out of 3743 finishers and 3rd in my AG out of 158.

Probably nothing.

Walked around a bit, stretched and went and got a massage. After my Mom finished Amy and I went to cheer on her Mom (who ran the full) at the wall.


2+ weeks previous to this race, I've been having GI problems on every single run. Some worse than others, but it disrupted run training to say the least. Lack of race pace conditioning contributed I'm sure. The precautions I took to avoid this on race day worked and I was gut problem-free, thankfully.


Not a PR for me this year - I've ran this race over 2' faster last year. We didn't put a focus on this race at all. Still a good effort put out (mentally and physically) in this race and I'm fine with how everything went.

As for how the race was ran...Sean's (the RD) races are always top notch and his attention to detail is superb. Everything is ran very well and the organization perfect. And, you just can't beat all-you-can-eat brats and beer at the finish line!