Felt good until mile 22. Was hanging with the 4:20 pacers, but at 22 just couldn't hold the pace anymore.

Long run before. David and I did a 13.1 training run in FL in March, but 11 was the longest I went after that.

Long finisher's chute. David was in Lambeau as I made that loop and was in the bleachers at the finish line. He followed me down the chute popping out between the busses as I hobbled out. Just had to keep walking. Had a chocolate milk in the chute, got a brat and a lite beer and walked around while eating those. Watched the award ceremony, then walked back to the hotel. Even though it was almost 80 degrees, I kept the mylar wrap on--felt chilled. Took a hot shower, briefly put the water to cold on my legs, but needed to warm up my body. Got packed up and had to get back to town as all the boys were coming to us.


Lack of long run. I also had been feeling really run down the month or so before the race--to the point I emailed my doctor and had lab work done. It was all OK, but I started taking a multivitamin and was more consistent w my iron (Ferritin still on the low end) and that seemed to help.


This is one of my favorite races ( I do it almost every year) as it is so flat. I was 5 min slower than the Madison Marathon this past fall (11/8/15) and that was a super hilly course, so I wonder if the lack of hills is actually a detriment as the same muscles get used the entire time. I did take 11 minutes off of last year's time, though. We had perfect weather--55 at start and 70s by finish, mild humidity. I would have liked more stations to hand out ice--they had it in coolers at almost all but only a few had it ready in cups to hand out (don't want to have to stop and wait). At mile 24 there was this awesome lady who had set up a table and had Ibuprofen, root beer, diet coke, chocolate, water, and who knows what else. The root beer was exactly what I needed to get through the last 2 miles as I didn't want another Gu--thank you nice lady!