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Comments: There was a water station every mile, nicely staffed, great volunteers. The miles were marked with balloon numbers. What would you do differently?: I knew i had to do a steady slow pace as i hadn't been training. So really, i have no complaints how i handled my race. I wish i had downloaded songs on my mp3 player. I was only able to get one station in, and it was classical. As much as it was relaxing, i think i would have preferred some rock-n-roll.  Post race
Warm down: water What limited your ability to perform faster: not enough base training, and some amount of unwillingness to push hard. Event comments: The race was well organized, great people, well staffed, plenty to eat, easy parking, great wick-away shirts in the goodie bag, finishing medals, lots of raffle prizes. I bet this race gets as big as the Tufts. The only thing I hope they correct in their future races is the starting line timing. They did NOT have a race mat at the start. We lined up backwards according to our pace. So to have one clock time for all, is no where near accurate. I had my chrono watch on luckily, so i knew my time. Last updated: 2006-07-10 12:00 AM
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 2006-07-10 10:44 AM |
Extreme Veteran  596   ma |  Subject: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K |
| 2006-07-10 12:01 PM in reply to: #477631 |
Veteran 264 Worcester, MA | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Nikki, I looked for you but didn't see you! glad to hear you had a good race. next year I want separate starts for the 5 and 10K - that was a mob scene. |
| 2006-07-10 12:04 PM in reply to: #477631 |
Extreme Veteran 596 ma | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K hey Monica - yeah!!..i couldn't find a couple of folks there. The start was rough, i agree. They didn't have the timing mat at the start, which is appreciated for someone like myself that seeds accordingly ... WAY BACK!! |
| 2006-07-10 12:28 PM in reply to: #477631 |
Master 1551 Virginia Beach, VA | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Nice race!!!  |
| 2006-07-10 1:51 PM in reply to: #477631 |
Extreme Veteran 321 New Jersey | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Hey Nikki nice race, I'll be visiting Boston next week for business...any help with run routes? Edited by jmf-tt 2006-07-10 1:51 PM |
| 2006-07-10 2:32 PM in reply to: #477631 |
Champion 19812  MA | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Great race Nikki! Still you allude me ...ever time we race together, we never find each other!! Congrats on awesome time with little training..you rock! The over the top women stuff was so so....but I agree they should have a start line time plus start the 5K and 10K at different times so it isn't so congested. Emily had a great time and it was fun to do as a mother-daughter team. |
| 2006-07-10 7:14 PM in reply to: #477631 |
Member 52 Cambridge, MA | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Good to see you there too! And you did an excellent job keeping up the pace, even without your music. :-) I think you're right - if they keep doing this race, it could get very big. The website says there were 1400 finishers (okay, "1400 women became Iron Girls", bleah) - The Tufts 10K at its biggest was around 6500. So, a little ways to go, but it could happen! I wonder what kind of growth they are seeing in the locations where they've done races before? Edited by MaryV 2006-07-10 7:15 PM |
| 2006-07-10 7:24 PM in reply to: #478314 |
Master 1303 Mishicot, Wisconsin | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Hey there, I'm a college student in Minneapolis and we have a duathlon there that started last year. I was a big event so much so that they changed race locations for this year. I am not sure how many people are racing but I volunteered last year (I wasn't in good enough shape to compete) and it was great! Congrats to you all! |
| 2006-07-11 12:12 AM in reply to: #477631 |
| Champion 8903 | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Wow, look how fast you are compared to the 10-K that you and I did! What a big improvement....congrats!
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| 2006-07-11 4:36 AM in reply to: #477631 |
Pro 4612 MA | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K |
| 2006-07-11 7:26 AM in reply to: #477978 |
Extreme Veteran 596 ma | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K jmf-tt - 2006-07-10 1:51 PM Hey Nikki nice race, I'll be visiting Boston next week for business...any help with run routes? hey jose - where in boston will you be? depending on where you are, i might be able to recommend good runs. charles river of course comes to mind first. there are weekly runs organized by clubs as well. |
| 2006-07-11 7:33 AM in reply to: #478580 |
Extreme Veteran 321 New Jersey | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K nikki - 2006-07-11 8:26 AM jmf-tt - 2006-07-10 1:51 PM Hey Nikki nice race, I'll be visiting Boston next week for business...any help with run routes? hey jose - where in boston will you be? depending on where you are, i might be able to recommend good runs. charles river of course comes to mind first. there are weekly runs organized by clubs as well. Nikki, Im staying on Exeter St at the Lenox. I usually stay at the Omni but it was all booked up. |
| 2006-07-11 8:34 AM in reply to: #477631 |
Expert 770 acton, Ma | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Nice job! sounds like a fun day! |
| 2006-07-11 12:41 PM in reply to: #477631 |
Master 1946 Bronze member | Subject: RE: RYKA Iron Girl Boston - 10K Sounds like a fun day Nikki- nice race- ! Will we see you at a late season tri ??? |
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coffee, half bagel with cream cheese, sips of gatorade, sips of water. met up with friends and drove to race site together.
i saw Patty and Mary from BT. i looked for kathyg, but coudln't find her. I saw May from BT, but didn't catch up with her until she caught up (and passed me) on the race course. Denise from BT, was sick and couldn't make it. I hope you're feeling better!!
Used the porta-potty, which was impressively clean.
Did some stretching, chit-chatted with Danskin gang, some from last year, saw Matt who is on the BTT team and was working the race. Put an iron girl tattoo on.