I was able to get a "Preferred 2" starting position since I had put down that my estimated finish time was 40 minutes. Im glad I was able to get that and be somewhat in the front. Being in the back with 10,000 people in front of me would have killed my time. Even though I was about 100 feet from the start line at the beginning, I still had to weave through people for the first 1.5 miles. After that the pack sort of thinned out. I say "sort of" because the start line was a 4 lane road filled on both sides with people and it eventually changed to 2 lane roads 1.5 miles down the road. I was trying to keep under 6:25/mi and was able to do so throughout most of the race. I was :05-:10 above it few times but that was in the beginning when I was dodging people and also on the inclines. I felt really good throughout the whole race and it went by pretty quick. At the last .6 mile or so, I gave it all I had was when I looked at my watch I was running 5:45 or so miles. Nice! I dont think I could have went much longer at that speed, and Im happy with when I decided to turn the afterburners on.

Nothing, Excellent race!

After I crossed, I got my lungs back, got my chip taken, got my medal and hung out for a while. I ran into a few guys I knew and talked to them about the course. We went and got a drink and I headed back to the finish to wait for Amy and her mom. They crossed right around the 1 hr mark and after they finished, we went to the food tent and started to shove our faces. I wanted to enought to get a good recovery, since I have the GB Tri the next morning.


My short course running ability. I havnt worked very much on sprint workouts and, if I had, I probably could have done a little better.


This was the 30th Anniversary for the Bellin Run. This event was huge. They had 10,324 people registered for the whole thing (kids run, 10k Run, 10K walk , 10K wheelchair). There were plenty of volunteers all over the place, plenty of parking, huge food tent, they had a chiropractor giving free adjustments afterward (which I took up) and people giving free massages after the run. Amys mom wanted one, so we waited in line and since we were waiting in line anyways, Amy and I got one also. I would highly recommend this race to anyone. Its a very well, put together event!