{"id":232,"date":"2015-11-14T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2015-11-14T17:02:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T17:02:14","slug":"ghost-run-10-25-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/14\/ghost-run-10-25-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Run – 10.25.15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ghost<\/a><\/p>\n

At some point after the Celebrate Differences 5K in April, I learned that they would be the charity partner for the 2015 FraidyCat series. So I signed up to run it and help support them. It also ended up being the Virtual Old Glory Relay run.<\/p>\n

We had great weather for it, and it was great to see Rebecca and the rest of the Celebrate Differences people out there. However, I believe the on site staff could have done a better job with things. For one, even though I registered in plenty of time, they didn’t have a shirt for me — and I still don’t have it almost 3 weeks later. I’ll get it at some point once it’s printed. The other HUGE issue I had was with how they handled the 10K awards. This is the first race that I’ve ever been at where they didn’t do age group for both distances.<\/p>\n

When I looked at the web site afterwards, I saw that they had a note that it had to get to 250 before they would do that. I understand it’s a for-profit race, but medals can’t be that expensive when I see all of these virtual ones that offer a medal for $12-$15 entry fee. And when you buy them in bulk, it can’t be more than say $5-7 per. So maybe $350 to cover the 10K side. <\/p>\n

While I don’t run races or participate in events because of the finisher medals (or medals in general), this rubbed me the wrong way enough that I needed to say something about it. And for the record, even if they had done age awards, I wouldn’t have gotten one (4th in age group), so it’s really about how it was handled not that I didn’t get one when I should have.<\/p>\n

While those were both issues, there were a couple of good learning lessons from the day — <\/p>\n

1) That until I can control starts \/ keep an even pace, we need to go to tethered running. Consistently, I’m burning out the ‘first level’ by 2-3 miles in and have very little left for the second half \/ later parts of races. As an example of that, I was at a ~12min\/mile pace through the 5K and that pace dropped by about 2 min \/mile on the 2nd 5K.<\/p>\n

2) That ‘disposable clothing’ (aka Goodwill sweatshirt purchases) are better options in races where it’s borderline (say 45-50) rather than UnderArmour suit. I ended up having to pull off layers (Terri carried the top for me) mid race. It would have been better if I could have just pulled off a $2 sweatshirt and dropped it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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