Rock 'n Sole Half Marathon

I ran in the Summerfest Rock 'n Sole half marathon on Sunday July 10. This was, yes, the race that ran out of water at some of the aid stations at some points in the run on a beautiful hot humid July day, with some number of runners ending up hospitalized. That said, with over five thousand runners, some people had better or worse experiences than others, and my run went just fine. I finished in 2:08:11, 964th place out of 2995, 599th of 1356 men, 79th of 183 men age 35-39. Considering the warm weather, some amount of delay getting water at each station, and the fact that I deliberately wasted a bit of time taking photographs while running the race, that's a reasonable time for me. My real goal for the event wasn't the time but the chance to run on the bridge. I figured I'd do the longer run instead of the 10k since I've run the full 21.1km a number of times by myself and occasionally do my 14km-each-way commute to work running, so I was prepared to run the full distance.

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