Bass Pro Recap

The Bass Pro half marathon arrived and went. Kimi and I woke up Sunday morning at 4:45 so we could eat and get ourselves fully awake prior to toeing the line at 7:00. In an ideal situation, it would be nice to be awake for 3 hours before the start of the race but I wasn't about to get up at 4:00.  It was difficult enough to get up at 4:45 since my KC Royals were playing in the World Series the night before. Thankfully, it was daylight savings weekend.

Anyways, we made our way to the race around 6:00 so we could get a good parking spot and then wouldn't feel rushed getting ready.  We always start our warm up about 45 minutes before the start of the race. This helps us get any last minute restroom stops out of the way prior to the start as well. After the warm up, we changed our shoes and did a couple strides so we could start getting the go fast juices flowing. 

Then we walked across the street to the start for the the national anthem and then off we went. I always find it interesting how they do the start at this particular race. There is no gun sound, horn, or anything exciting for the start. They simply count down and say go.  

I quickly surveyed the guys at the start and thought I might have a shot at the top 3 until the gun went off. You just never can tell sometimes when people are just standing around. It was incredibly foggy this particular morning and by about 1.5 miles into the race, the leaders were already starting to fade into the fog ahead of us. I knew I didn't have a shot unless one of them came back to us at some point. With that knowledge, I decided to run the race with Kimi and help her finally push through this particular event with a great effort. It's a good thing I did too.  When we finished up, Kimi and I were about 5 minutes behind the 3rd place male and about 4 minutes ahead of the 5th place male (that means I was 4th male). Kimi ran awesome and was 1st Female with a time of 1:17:36!  Smoking!!

Next up for us is to start focusing all of our efforts on Kimi's Olympic Trials Marathon which is coming up quickly in February. The biggest challenges for Kimi's training will be the winter weather and lack of daylight.  Hopefully, we'll be able to figure something out so that we can continue to get her mileage completed and have her as fit or better than she was back in June.