Clothing opinion

[skhill]

Wow, that's awful. But it's awesome that you ran anyway, and finished...

I thought my first HM was bad-- temps in the mid 40s with wind and thunderstorms. Sounds like a piece of cake comparatively!

[Bike Chick]

Holy cow! How awful! You get the tough award for the day, that's for sure. Great job hanging in there. I wonder how many people didn't even show up for the race?

[jessmarimba]

Looks like over 400 people pre-registered (for a full, a half, and a 5K). There were 195 finishers total. I don't know how many started and didn't finish, but seeing as it was a trail course that'd be pretty difficult.

They cancelled the full (two laps of the half) at the first aid station, then apparently reinstated it for select people (meaning, the fast people).

So far the race is rated 1.5 stars on the active.com page.

My time was 2:48
If I had done a road half, I would've been aiming for 2 hours. I wish I hadn't looked up my time now

[OakLeaf]

Yikes! Wow. Good for you!

[TsPoet]

I'm in awe! what a great accomplishment.
What did you wear?

[jessmarimba]

Haha. Not enough!.

Ended up in tights, long sleeved shirt, mittens (too hot) and a rain coat I hadn't worn before (thankfully fine). Needed something for that wind! It was pretty good clothing for the first 9 or so miles, but once I had to walk I got too cold very quickly. Coincidentally, I started walking when it started snowing heavily, so that probably didn't help.

Wish I'd found last year's running gloves before I left. Thought I had some in the car but I couldn't find them. I'm apparently down to one gray glove and one green, purple, and black striped glove that I found this morning & wore to volunteer at the Denver marathon.

Here's a pic from the start to show how bundled up we were - I'm at the left of the photo with a purple-pink jacket and blue buff.

[limewave]

Congrats on your race! That looks like a tough course . . . and crowded too.

[GLC1968]

Wow, Jess - good for you! I opted out of running that day because I felt like I was coming down with a cold. I figured that running in cold rain when I was totally unprepared clothing-wise was a bad idea. I flew home that day and spent Sunday and today feeling awful with sore throat, congestion and body aches. Yuck. I'm SO glad I didn't run!

I'm sorry your race was so miserable, but you should be damn proud for even being out there. It was a nasty day - and that's coming from someone who runs in cold rain all winter long! Kudos to you!