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LaSalle Bank Shamrock Shuffle - 8K - Run8k
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Comments: Run was great. I was hoping to finish in 50 min, which would have put me at a 10-min mile, but I wasn't really ready for that. I was pushing myself and was getting quite tired by mile 4. I did run with my usual walk breaks (5-1 most of the race), so that helped. Other than that, enjoyed the run immensely! What would you do differently?: Nothing, really... just need to work on my speed, but we all know that just takes time :) Oh, also.. I would figure out where I'd meet the people that came to watch me after the race ehhe today there was no such plan, and I got to see a lot of different faces and a lot of different strollers while looking for mine LOL  Post race
Warm down: Wandering around for 15 min trying to find my husband and baby LOL :) Didn't think to decide where we'd meet, so trying to find them in a crowd of probably 50,000 people was a bit insane. What limited your ability to perform faster: Not enough speedwork. Event comments: I'm going to give the race a Best rating, because I do enjoy it a lot...However, I do have one thing to gripe about. Okay, on the website, it was said that there would be an Aid station at mile 2. Well, when I saw the tables approaching, I took my gel, so I needed to wash it down with something. When i got to the first table, there were like THREE volunteers surrounded by a crowd of runners..as the volunteers were filling up the cups! Huh???? I know that accommodating 30,000 runners is not easy and they probably couldn't have cups ready (maybe? maybe not?), but to have 3-4 people at that table? Now, they said that there would be more stations down the way.... however, I didn't know how many, so I just stuck around, lost over a min and a half to get gatorade.... and sure enough, there were 4-5 other stations over the course of ...maybe another half a mile.. So, why was that not stated on the website? Had ppl known that, there probably wouldn't have been crazy crowd congestion at the first two tables. I though that having 3 people per table (instead of 15) was poor organization-after all, you do have 30,000 runners................ other than that, the race was organized great!!! Enough restrooms, pace groups marked professionally, start on time, perfect! Last updated: 2007-03-25 12:00 AM
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 2007-03-25 5:29 PM |
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Sunny
Overall Rank = 15647/30000
Age Group = 30-34
Age Group Rank = 1363/?
Got up at 5:25, got ready, had a couple of cups of coffee, enjoyed some quiet time by myself. My husband and my baby came with me to the race, so we left at 7:15 to drive to Chicago.
We got there a tad too late for no line to the parking garage, so parking took a few minutes.
My only warm-up consisted of jogging to the bathroom (and that was dictated more by not wanting to explode than by desire to warm up for the race).
Had a banana at 6:45 and a Luna bar about 30 min before the race.