Cellcom Green Bay Marathon
Cellcom Green Bay Marathon
( 25 reviews )-
Green Bay,
Wisconsin,
United States - May
- 3 miles/5K, 13.1 miles/Half Marathon, 26.2 miles/Marathon, Relay
- Road Race
- Event Website
Tim
Green Bay, Wisconsin, United StatesOverall
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WHAT WAS AWESOME ABOUT THIS RACE?
The spectators were awesome this year. I would argue this is the best they have ever been. There weren't as many dead spots on the course. It seemed like everyone wanted to come out and see the race. Part of this is probably because the weather has sucked in Green Bay until recently and they just wanted to take advantage of a nice day. Even the Tank party zone was actually hopping and extremely loud. Any gap in the Fox River Trail was packed with people. Cars were honking at every point imaginable. Check out my twitter feed and you will see the signs my wife, brother-in-law, and mother-in-law made for me. As a pacer, you can only do so much motivating. The rest comes from outside sources like the spectators, and they were in full force on Sunday.
WHAT WASN'T SO AWESOME ABOUT THIS RACE?
Yes, I am still sour grapes about not reaching my goal time of 3:15:00. I was 3:15:12. Part of the reason this why was my watch. As it happens during marathons, you run a little extra during a race. I had been counting on the big clocks at mile markers so I could stay on pace with the gun time just to guard against me judging our splits on our chip time. I feel like I could have controlled our pace a little better if I could just look up and see my time and judge what I needed to do based on the time that actually matters instead of the time on my watch.
For more, check out my blog entry: http://tkmarathonman.blogspot.com/2013/05/race-report-cellcom-green-bay-marathon.html