Shannon and I ran the Peachtree Road Race this morning for the first time in our lives, and it couldn’t have been easier. The weather was perfect, the volunteers were awesome, and we both stayed mostly pain free for the whole race (10k = 6.2mi). The dreaded hills didn’t seem as bad as the ones around our house, which are some of the worst I’ve ever run on.
It’s hard to believe we’ve lived here our whole lives and haven’t participated before, but we can check this off the list.
Getting there was fun- the Chamblee MARTA station parking lot was nearly full and we parked in a rarely opened auxiliary lot. While walking into the station we overheard an announcement that trains were going to run every 10 minutes all day, good news! When we got to the platform there was a massive crowd that had clearly been waiting more than 10 minutes. We heard another garbled announcement that contained the phrase “sorry for the delay,” and the first train showed up almost 20 minutes later. We somehow managed to all fit on the train, although we were both in the middle of the car away from any handles or things like that. We got to the starting paddock with time to stretch, and then we were off.
The finish area was awesome, with a very well organized setup. They had huge balloons signifying the locations of water and different t-shirt sizes. There was a mysterious lack of port-a-potties at the end of the race, or at least we couldn’t find them. I’ll tell you what we did find, though: Blue Bell ice cream. They were giving some away, and it’s my new official post run snack.
Looks like there should be some recognition that Shannon was wearing her Clairemont Cougars elementary school tee shirt for the race. It was very big when she wore it in first grade….now it fits.