Green Bay, Wisconsin United States Cellcom Green Bay Marathon 42F / 6C Overcast

Total Time = 2h 04m 1s Overall Rank = 994/2629 Age Group = 50-54 Age Group Rank = 24/108

Saturday morning we watched Ross lose his 2 Conference tennis matches at Nielsen, got home around 1:45, had to eat lunch (grabbed Taco Bell bean burrito and crunchy taco on the way home), get packed and go. Left the house around 2:30. David drove, his heel was still very sore but no more redness and minimal drainage. middle stitches came out. Arrived at Lambeau around 4:30 so went to get our race packets (after taking yearly photo at Cellcom booth--they don't give photos anymore, just backdrops and props). David bought gels for his shoes and we took a ton of applesauce packs. Walked over to Hinterland Brewery (had parked there) to meet Dave, Dennis, Barb, her 2 daughters Anna and ?, and the 2 Jennys. Had a beer then had to get to our 6pm reservation at Grazies. Got seated in a booth right away. Marissa was going to join us but her BF Brandon came along so they did their own thing. Got the same as last year--small spicy garlic with marinara on the side. House salad w ranch on the side. Just water to drink. David got a sirloin steak. w potato soup and veggies. Awesome meal! Had to take home some pasta and D;s veggies. Went to Hotel J to get checked in. Got the room for $54 using expedia points. Very thin walls, could hear every noise. Did some texting/emails while David napped, was able to poo, then went to bed at 9, but couldn't sleep cuz of all the noisy people. At midnight I turned on the air purifier for white noise which then kept David up. Plus it was too warm for be w blanket, sl cool w just sheet. Yeesh!

Set alarm for 5:51am, got dressed but wasn't sure what to wear--42 degrees w wind to 15mph from NNE. Settled on Red High Cliff ss shirt w blue cheapo jacket over it, and blue windbreaker over that until start time (gave to David). Went to breakfast bar (6-9) which had waffles, yogurt, oatmeal, eggs, muffins, biscuits/gravy, hash browns (David ate all that) but I ate leftover Kodiak waffles with PB and a strawberry banana yogurt they had there. (1 whole waffle). More poo! Drove to Lambeau (we were 5miles away) and ended up parking in the Kohler lodge parking lot right across the street. David had his Gary Fischer bike so he assembled that and rode that over at 7:20 and waited inside Lambeau until 7:53 to get in the corral. Took an orange Hammer Gel at 7;30. I was in C, the 2:00 pacer was in B. So much for that option. Took a good 5 min to get to the start line after gun time, was very cold without the windbreaker (esp during the star spangled banner). Hands were frozen/numb, never thought to grab gloves, and ears were cold. Once I got jogging (very congested that first mile) my core warmed up, but hands didn't warm until probably mile 3. David rode his bike with me the whole way.