WHAT WAS AWESOME ABOUT THIS RACE
I love the course every year, but this year was great in particular. In year's past, we have done laps around parking lots just to kill time and miles. By adding a mile or two at the beginning and at the end, we pretty much went straight from the neighborhood onto campus and to the lakeshore path. No one racing likes the obvious attempts to eat mileage. This race did a good job of avoiding that.

WHAT WASN'T AWESOME ABOUT THIS RACE
I felt like we were curb hopping a lot. We curb hopped with good reason, but I felt like for a race of this size and stature that we curb hopped a lot.

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