I run therefore, I am!

Ok so, I was in charge of pacing this crazy race a couple of months ago and so I took the challenge of finding awesome friends and runners to help organize pace times of 1:30 every ten minutes to 3 hours. There were some awesome friends on here that helped. Kelli, Rachel, Rob R., James, Allie, Andy B., Tom and Kim Lee, and yours truely. Ok So the race had some serious trouble with packet pickup. The company that sorts out the data from registration failed horribly as they lost info on a couple thousand names of runners. Ooops! So, as you can imagine, packet pickup turned into a complete joke. Im sure he learned his lesson on using them again. So I got my pacers organized a couple of weeks ago and felt really good and added a few later on but it worked! I asked Rob about ideas of pace bands as I knew this course to be fast for the first 4 to 5 miles. I knew that a flat pace wouldnt work as it would make my pacers go slow at the start and all out in the last miles. Not good for most runners who are wanting to stay with an experienced pacer. Kelli told me she had noticed how Clif Bar pacers do that and it is impossible to stay with them. So Rob got the course tool out and went all out so I officially made him my Course Tool Stud! OMG what a great job he did! Everyone of my pacers were right on! So, back to the story here I wanted to share. I had some guy named Luke Wagner who was a clif bar pacer try to insist that I do a flat pace and I told him it wouldnt work. He mustve got offended by this so he started sending me emails which I still have, if you want to see them I can forward them to you. He told me what an idiot I was and that I would fail and I responded back to him that he wouldnt be pacing my 1:30 group or any at all for that matter so he started emailing my pacers negative (and im  being modest here) messages to everyone telling them Im no longer in charge.  Kelli called me up and told me that a couple of days before the race so I sent him my final email telling him if he showed up to packet pickup or the starting line and tried to interfere I would have him escorted out. I actually had the number to the cop at the top so I could and wished he wouldve showed like he said but didnt. I warned Allie and James who were pacing the 1:30 group about him and luckily he didnt show. He actually told me he wanted to fight me so I obliged him and said Id be there!  He sent another email after the race telling my pacers they failed horribly and wow did he get an earful from some of them! So funny! If you guys know him personally I would really like to know why he is acting this way.  Ive never had to deal with someone like that. really? Competing for a pace group? Bring it! I am competitive. lol 

I want to seriously thank my pacers though as they did top notch! I had tons of compliments from runners which makes me feel good and I have to pass it on to you guys as well! Kelli helped me out a lot at packet pickup and Rob, omg I cant thank enough. He saved the day. Rachel helped in the chaos at packet pickup as well.  Allie and James were so into their pace group that they got engaged over it! Ok so maybe thats not how it happened but it would make a great story right? Tom and Kim came in right on cue and had a lady that was so excited to hit that time that I think she wanted to bake you guys a cake or something! I told her to make sure she left a comment on the website!  Andy I cant forget either! Such a great job.  So all in all thank you guys and Michael the race director already told me we would be his official pacers! Now I can start squeezing him for some rewards to you guys for helping. Thank YOU!  I had fun!  I will do this again!