Well I signed up for the race on the last day possible. The wife mentioned it to me to sign up because the marathon I ran a couple weeks before I had a very terrible race and was disappointed. Wasn't sure if it was a good idea at the time to run this but, I thought what the hell?!? The race started off good. I had forgotten my HR monitor at home and just decided to run it by feel.(maybe I should start doing this more often!) Right at the start four people really took off pretty good. I had to back myself off some to not blow up early. I was then passed by two real young teenagers and they were having a great time it seemed as well. Once they passed me I was never passed by anyone else. I was trying to stay around a 6:45-6:50 pace for the first 7-8 miles or so to see what I had left later on. First mile came in at like a 6:33. Woops! Either way I felt great!

I could tell right away during the early part of the race I was having a much better day compared to my marathon. My stomach felt fine and my legs were great. I had brought two gels with me and took the first one at mile 4.5 or so and the second around the one hour mark give or take. I wasn't laboring hard at all during the race for the most part as well. I ended up catching one of the guys who took off to hard at the start around mile 9. He was fading pretty good it seemed. I think he might have got caught by another person or two before the finish. There course was almost 4/10 of a mile short as well. Everyone I talked too who had GPS at the end said the same thing. Kind of wish it would have been closer to the right distance so that I could really see what my time was. I dropped 4:25 off my PR. If it would have been true to distance I think it would have been more like 2 minutes and change.

Nothing I think. I could have went harder the last couple miles but, I was in cruise mode at that point and didn't really want to have sore leg muscles the next few days! The two teenagers who were ahead of me were to far for me to get so I just went with it. No one was even close to me behind me.

Walked around. Did some stretching and chatting with the winners and a couple other runners. Found the wife and boys. Tristan was covered in mud(he's just like his dear ole dad!). The wife wasn't very happy with him though...lol. Found out they were not doing AG awards it sounded like so we took off!


Nothing I think. Just didn't want to have sore muscles the next few days.


Overall it was a good race. I gave them a 3 due to the distance being short. If you have close to a thousand people running you really have to have the distance closer IMHO. Otherwise they did an awesome job with all the races. Plenty of volunteers and the people who came out to cheer were great!

Glad I decided to pull the trigger and get myself a little mental redemption over my bad marathon a couple weeks ago.