Race Reports/Encouragement/Kudos for July 4, 5 and 6

[Big Vic]

Friday, July 4th

4 - Stitch lover Sith (Erin) Cazenovia 10 mile Foot Race; NY
4 – amykab (Amy) Firecracker 5K run, Brevard, NC
4 – Honeibee (Judy) and DH (Charlie) Four on the Fourth, Canaan, CT
4 - Peachtree Road Race 10K; Atlanta, GA
AmyBWV99's DH, BamaEd1 (Ed), CarolA (Carol), Cruella de mom (Cecilia), gsu1988
(Ken), lenshanem's DH, panthergirl (Susan), ScoJo15 (Scott)
4 – dsnyfan21 (Tracy) 15th Annual July 4th Weston 5K, Weston FL

Saturday, July 5th

5 – monte (Monica) Leadville Heavy Half, Leadville, CO

Sunday, July 6th

6 - littlegreydonkey (Helen) Gold Coast 1/2 Marathon; Australia
6 - blizzard (Carol) LA Weight Loss 10K; Calgary, Alberta, Canada

GO! WISH Team GO!

 

[dsnyfan21]

GO Wish team, we're so patriotic racing on July4th!!

 

[JacobsMommy11002]

Yeah, WISHers, GO GO GO!!!! I'll be sitting on my butt in the car for 7 hours cheering you on!

 

[escape]

Good luck, WISHERS!

Lots of events this weekend. Way to bring in the 4th of July!


GO Team Go!!!!

 

[princessrunner]

GOWISHTEAM!!

 

[ScoJo15]

Howdy team!

Sitting in my office downtown and thought I'd give a brief report on the Peachtree Road Race 10k that took place this morning.

First of all the weather was perfect!! Humidity was very low, clouds were frequently covering up the sun and the temps had to be somewhere in the low 70s.

This was my first year in Time Group 1A (last year I was in 1B) and it was very cool to be up there with the seeded people right in front of us. Here are a couple of poor photos taken with my mobile phone:

This makes it look further than it was...they walked us up to underneath the huge American flag and we started there, right when the seeded people did

Here is a look at what was behind me

I had injured my foot last week and wasn't even sure if I would be running this morning...but a smart week of easy training and a lot of nights icing and elevating had it feeling pretty good.

The race was a pretty fun event once again, with lots of crowd support lining the entire way from start to finish. Due to the media created drought of last summer, the race had to be diverted to end near the Atlanta Civic Center instead of Piedmont Park. This meant one extra turn to navigate and a 2 hill uphill finish (as opposed to the normal downhill sprint to the park). Somehow that didn't seem to bother me as I ended up with a 50:07 (8:04mpm), two minutes slower than my current 10k PR, BUT about 2:45 quicker than I ran the Peachtree last year. It's really tough to run fast here due to the sheer number of people participating (55,000!). So many in fact that I heard the announcer say that group 6 (of 9 total) had just started when we crossed the finish line :

Kudos to the race organizers who put together a great post finish line system of water, chip return and t-shirt pickup that went of seamlessly.

All in all it was a great event this year.

This afternoon, I'll put up a more detailed report in my blog for those interested
http://scojo15.blogspot.com

GOOD LUCK to everyone else racing this holiday weekend!!

Happy 4th!

 

[Big Vic]

Scott - Congrats! WTG with the Peachtree PR!!

 

[escape]

Scott - congratulations on a great time and great race!!!

55,000 racers??????? Holy macaroni! Whew!

 

[ScoJo15]

55,000 racers??????? Holy macaroni! Whew!

Thanks!!

Yes, coming into this year it is the largest road race in the world. I think the Vancouver Sun Times 10k had around 59,000 this year...

 

[bunnyfoo]

Scott - Congrats on the PR! Wow - 55,000 people! That's a big race

 

[windwalker]

Thanks!!

Yes, coming into this year it is the largest road race in the world. I think the Vancouver Sun Times 10k had around 59,000 this year...

That's hard to imagine, that's like the number at the Disney marathon and half combined twice over.

Great time Scott, especially in those crowded conditions.

Impressed Panda

 

[CarolA]

My quick PeachTree Report.

I was in Group 2 which while not as cool as Scott's group was much nicer then last years Group 4. Waldo was in Scott's group LOL!

Personally I thought the heat/humidity were a lot worse this year then last year.

I ran the first three miles with a woman from my Galloway Group who is faster then I am so I burned up a lot of energy earlty but it was fun. My overall time was 1:13 minutes which is a new PR for me. (And I had to sprint to the finish to get it right at 1:13 LOL)

Now I really disliked the finish this year. It was A VERY VERY long walk to the unappealing parking lot where you meet up with your family members. There's no shade there and it's just a hot piece of asphalt BLEH! I hope that the city remembers PARKS ARE FOR PEOPLE next year. (However, this issue really is not drought related IMHO, it's about folks wanting the 'riff raff" OUT of "thier" upscale neighborhood and park)


As we were driving home from Marta Waldo called his friend who was in Group 9. When he called back it was 10 AM (race started at 7:30 for the sub seeded runners and you go to the start line in groups. My group got tp the start line about 7 minutes after the start.) He was just past the three mile point at 10 AM. (And it's getting WARM!) Gives you an idea of how long it takes to get this thing done!


Now I am off to take a nap!

 

[dsnyfan21]

Congratulations Scott and CoralA on your Peachtree event!!

I will now report on my little local 5K. "15th Annual Weston Hometown July 4th Celebration"
Held in Weston Florida (the city in which I work)
Race time was 7am. I met an excoworker there at 6:30 to get out race packets, warm up a bit and then go. It was a very humid morning because it has been raining here in the afternoons and evenings which saturates the air. The bibs had an attached piece on them that you put on your shoe. I know some races have used these but it is a newer timing system. SplitSecond Timing decided to be the first in the South Florida area to use it at a race event. It's the ChromoTrack System. I would guess that there were aprox 500 people there. When you get your bib the strip you attach to your shoes laces in right on it and has the same number as your bib. You separate the tag and then underneath it there is a clear sticker that you remove and it reveals a sticky pad, slide it under your laces and stick the two ends together making sure the part that reads this side up is up. It is supposed to be very accurate, easy to use, less expensive for race directors and the equipment is easy to set up and take down. This is what it would look like on your shoe.

(this is not my shoe)
My friend found me with no probelm because I recently order a lime green shirt from RR and even though it didn't have the printing on it I felt very WISH-ish. I also had my visor. She has been troubled with some shin pain for a week so I told her that she could stick with me, run ahead or whatever she felt comfortable doing. She is a wogger. We crossed the start line at about 7:12am and stayed together for a bit, she started joggin while I was racewalking, but then she soon had to start walking so we did the cat and mouse thing for awhile and I lleft her at about 1.6 miles or so. I found the older lady that racewalks at alot of the local events and beat me last year in March. Memorial day I passed her with about .80 left to go. This time I passed her at mile 1.7 miles. I felt pretty good except for the sweat not just dripping, but pouring off me. After you cross the finish line there is no one to collect your tab, its yours and you don't have to return it. I guess that saves having to get volunteers to remove them and no backups at the finish area chute. I saw my friend about 3 minutes later and cheered her to the finish line. We then walked over to the area that the Fire Department had set up with a firehouse shooting water down from a truck like a big mister. VERY nice and refreshing.
Over all a very nice race and organized. Now I am just worried because I own a WDW Mickey championchip and can see that a day will come when it will no longer be needed.

P.S. ....Oh, my finish time on the Garmin was 41min30sec, Official time was 41min24sec. Not too shabby, about a 13:17pace. FOr summer time its good, but I am sure on a cooler day it would be better.

Have a great Fourth Everybody!!!

 

[Honeibee]

Alright, OK, not exactly speedy compared to the rest of you, but hey, I'll take it....

Four on the Fourth, New Canaan, CT

Official Time: 47:49

224/333 (Not DLF!!)

1) 11:26
2) 12:01
3) 12:14
4) 11:24

I'm happy. Now it's Mojito time!

 

[gsu1988]

Here is my report from Peachtree. I wasn't sure if I would run this morning either since I spent all last week fighting a cold but decided to go anyway. I thought the weather conditions were fine. It wasn't too hot and the humidity really wasn't that bad for July. I was also in time group 1A and it is neat to get to see the elite take off (The last time I would ever see them). I went out at a pretty good pace and felt pretty good but later in the race could feel the effects of the cold. I ended up running 1 hour flat. That is about 13 minutes slower than my normal 10K but hey its Peachtree and the best part is just getting to be a part of that huge crowd and getting that famous t-shirt (best one on past 4 years by the way)! I wore my WISH shirt for the first time and got several compliments on it. The people that comented loved the saying on the back. Congrats to all the others on their Peachtree and other 4th races!!!

 

[lenshanem]

Ken, it must have been you my DH saw today with the WISH shirt. He tried to come over and say hello, but couldn't get to you.

He ran in group two and ran right at an hour.
Next year he has a time to submit to get in group one. I was sad I couldn't run this year cause next year we'll be in different groups. Both our bibs were two this year. Oh, well!

I like the blue shirts.
Good job everyone!

 

[BamaEd1]

I did the Peachtree as well. I was in group 2 and had a great time. I was not prepared for the hills; it's hard to prepare for hills in my area. With that said, I PR'd the 10k distance!!!! I took about 5:37 off my previous 10k PR. It was a very well organized race and there was incredible crowd support along the whole route.

After finishing, another runner and I began talking. I asked him if he was happy with his time. He just grinned and said that last year on the the 4th, he was in the hospital fighting cancer so "You better believe that I'm happy with my time." He was wearing a "Live Strong" shirt and said that the Lance Armstrong Foundation helped him out a lot. April and I had tickets to the Brave game that night (Braves beat the Astros 6-1-woo hoo) so we had some time to kill. We went to Dave and Buster's for lunch and to play (it's a Ruby Tuesdays like restaurant with a bar, pool hall, and video arcade in one place....very fun) and then to the Mall of Georgia. I'm now wearing a Live Strong bracelet in his honor that I got at Dick's Sporting Goods in his honor.

Way to go everybody! I had fun running with you (even though we didn't know we were running together). Thanks to Cruella de Mom for the Peachtree number. She didn't get one but her DH did. They decided not to run so the let me have the number and I'm sooooo glad they did; DW and I had a blast!

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

Congratulations WISH Team!

You did it!

Seems that it was mostly a good weekend so far! Hot/humid/warm, but good!

Way to go!

 

[getnthinr]

Wow, what a bunch of great reports! Thanks, WISHers -- and congrats on the many PRs!

 

[Big Vic]

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