Even being in the first time group, it was relatively crowded and you had to pick, juke and jive your way through the crowd to get enough real estate to sustain a consistent pace.

Remembering how heavy my shoes felt from being wet during the Gulf Coast HIM run, I avoided the spray from the water hoses and hydrates as much as possible.

Upon looking at the data, it appears that my HR stayed in Zone 5 an abnormally long period of time: 29:19 and Z4 13:01 ... going to have to work on reversing those numbers.

Also hit a new (and sustained) max-HR of 190 while sprinting towards the finish line from in front of the Federal Reserve on Peachtree Street to Piedmont Park (which seemed a helluva lot longer than the .3 miles that I thought it was!).

While both the Garmin and my watch had my time down as 47:21, the official chip time was 48:51 ... either of which is helluvalot better than the 53:xx I logged last year. :)

Training has been inconsistent since Gulf Coast. While I have done a 10k and an Adventure Race since then, I haven't really training with the consistency of a schedule. Instead I have been floating and just logging workout based upon other people's training schedule for the months of May and June.

Met up with some of my peeps training with me for Coeur d'Alene next year and then we trekked over to friends house across the street from Piedmont Park. Drank a couple beers while watching the later groups finish ... before someone got the harebrained idea that we ought to not take Marta + instead run the race backwards to get our cars.

Talk about junk miles. I even ran the extra 1 1/2 miles from Lenox to Brookhaven to forego Marta thing in entirely.


Lack of consistent training, especially long slow distance base-building runs.


The Peachtree is not an event per se -- you are not going to set a PR here unless you are a Kenyan -- but an event to do with your friends. That said, I am happy with my times - both of them!