This was by far the worst race I have ever run, as far as organization and quality goes. I will likey never run it again and I would advise everyone I know against running this race as well. The course was decent, but every other aspect of the race was horrible!.
I ran okay for not wanting to run, it showed in my 2nd place finish, if I was healthy I would have won by as much as I lost by. I missed having people I know there to run with and visit with. Cody dropped by for a minute before the race started, and Carson Campbell and his brother Todd stopped by to chat after, but other than that it was a sad day for company. I got off to a slow start and never really got going because of achilles issues. Mid-point in the race I was wondering if I was doing the right thing running at all today, because I was in a lot of pain. The cold weather didn't seem to help my cause either. That last couple miles I felt awesome but couldn't kick it into an other gear to make a move for the win because of this stupid achilles. Everytime I speed up it would slow me down worse, frustrating! I am sure those of you with injuries, or who have had past injuries, know what I mean, I know Cody does. Every time I surged I thought that I might need to stop. I ended up settling for a comfortable pace just faster than my marathon pace. The guy that won was from Colorado and was about 25 seconds ahead of me at the end. Overall it was a good experience for running and I felt good, it is just frustrating when certain body parts don't want to work like the rest the body does. I will have to take it easy for a while and get this achilles issue under wraps. I would like to run a race a month just to keep my legs going and my motivation up. 35:53 was my offical time although I had it at 35:50 on my watch.
The rest of the race, minus running, was a disaster! They ran out of shirts and had all the wrong sizes. The chip timing was all messed up. They messed the results and had everyone wait around for 2 hours to do awards. The 5k and 10k runners were all mixed up into bith races. The race started at 10:00am and ther awards didn't get over until 1:30. They ran out of refreshments after the 5k runners came in, so the 10kers were out of luck. They forgot to get awards for the overall winners and went to the local trophy store and came back with the dinkiest generic trophies I have every seen (probably worth $1). They re-messed up the results and gave the awards to wrong people, some of who quickly left with someone else's award, so the overall 10k guy got squat and some 31 minute 5k runner got the worthless 10k trophy. They gave ribbons as awards, and ran out of blue ribbons. The only prizes given were two treadmills, one went to the mother of one of the people putting on the race and the other one went to the 10 year old daughter of one of the people helping with the race. I waited aroud for 3 hours and ended up not even getting a ribbon for my efforts. If anyone can top all that for a crappy race I would like to hear it. DON'T EVER RUN THE FIRST DAM RUN IN LOGAN UTAH!!!!!!!!!! If they didn't do a good job on their TOU races I would say don't ever run a Sun 'n' Snow race again. I was glad to let them know how I felt in a recent email. | 