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Comments: Maybe it's because I have been at so many superbly run triathlons, but I was pretty dissapointed in the support at this race. It was pretty expensive compared to others and they were really bad about run support. There were 4 water stops total. All they had was 1 ounce servings of water at mile 1.5 I literally thought they gave me an empty glass. Got another and the same thing. Next water stop wasn't until mile 4 and it was the same thing. I took 8 glasses so I could get a gu down. There were 2 more stops and nothing after mile 9. I'm lucky I brought 12 ounces of gatorade and a couple of gu's or I would have been in trouble. The run itself was pretty enjoyable. It was a beutifull day and the course was nice. I was undertrained for this run due to an injury about 6 weeks ago and was basically working up my long runs through last weekend. In general I am happy with how the run went. I promised myself at mile 9 as I was going down a pretty steep hill between Lake Harriet and Lake Calhoun that I would allow myself to walk up the hill on the way back. I was hurting pretty bad when I finally made it back and set a landmark I had to get to before I could walk.Right as I hit the landmark and I drop my head to my chin for a second I hear this piercing yell. "Don't you dare walk now Bryan, your almost done, GO GO GO Bryan!!! I was hoping like hell there was another Bryan who was getting chastised by a screaching banshee. No such luck. As I look up I see Oscar the Grouch/Bridget screaming encouragement. What was I suppose to do? After a 5 second walk break I started up running again. Bridget really helped me through a tough patch at that point(Although once I thought she was out of site I did walk for another 30 seconds) I am happy with the results of the race and have chosen to stick with my Garmin results instead of the races skewed start time results. If your going to chip everyone at least go by the chip time in the results. What would you do differently?: Extra nutrition. Don't count on course support. Post race
Warm down: Saw Aly first as I made it to the finish line and then Kelly. Calves were starting to cramp pretty bad so I got 2 bottles of water and some snacks. Tried to stretch for awhile and that seemed to help. What limited your ability to perform faster: Dehydrated. No taper period. Event comments: I hope I didn't come off as too negative in this report. I do very few stand alone run races so maybe this is just how they usually are. I was able to knock almost 7 minutes off my time at Gary Bjorkland half so I am quite pleased with myself. Last updated: 2007-09-28 12:00 AM
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Got up around 7:00 had a little coffee and some peanut butter toast. Decided to grab my fuel belt and 2 6oz bottlea at the last minute. Figured I wouldn't need them because of on-course support but figured I better bring them just in case-good call. Dropped Nik off in St.Louis Park at his grandparents and Kelly, Aly and I made it to the race.
I'm no where near the point where I feel I need to warm-up for a half marathon yet.