This is billed more as an "event" for the city of Atlanta rather than a race. As such, there were a bunch of folks who were in front of me at the start who didn't seem to be doing much running. After about a mile of me dodging as many folks as I could, the mass of humanity finally opened up and I was able to maintain a good pace without tripping over folks who didn't want to run.

I didn't drink anything during the race. I was very well hydrated and didn't think that I needed any additional fluids. The fact that I was trying to set a PB had something to do with it, but I just didn't feel as though I needed any water.

Leave it all on the course. Other than just going faster, I didn't quite feel like I was working as hard as I could have been.

Walk through the water and T-shirt chutes at Piedmont Park. Stretch a bit, drank lots of water.


54,999 of my closest friends. There were lots of folks even in my timegroup (which was fairly close to the front) who just weren't into running today. If I hadn't had to dodge so many of them at the start, I may have been able to break 55:00, but I'm not complaining. There are plenty of 10Ks around the city for that.


It was a good time. Lots of crowd support, lots of volunteers, just all around a good time. This is the first time I've done this race, and I look forward to (hopefully) doing it again. Not to mention that I ran less than 9:30 miles and set a personal best!