Waddell & Reed Kansas City Marathon – Half Marathon

date:	Oct 20th, 2007
location:	Kansas City, MO

Alright everything above is our results from the marathon. Friday night we took it easy for the most part. First we had a big pile of spaghetti then Heath Peanut and I drove out to Crown Center to scope things out and pick up our race packet (number thing, electronic chip, coupons and random giveaways, and our t-shirts). Crown Center did not have anything fun for Peanut to do so we just walked around a little bit and hung out by the fountains for a while.

Everyone was tired when we got home and went right to bed. Heath and I got up at 5:30am on Saturday and started to get ready. My mom came over to watch Peanut and we headed back downtown. Parking was easy and the massive crowd was easy to find but the bathrooms were tough to locate and then once we found a huge line of porta potties there was a massive line and we spent the entire warm up time in line to use the bathroom.

Like this but dark and full of runners and a line for every 3 potties.

The race started at 7 and we got moving along pretty well. We started at Crown Center then headed downtown then back and over around the liberty memorial. From there we headed to Westport and ran right threw the deserted streets and toward the plaza. The plaza was fairly hopping but they still had a street shut down for us. We ran through the plaza and past the Nelson museum and right over to my office then turned back up north.

We went through neighborhoods for a while and "Historic Hyde Park" was the only thing they really pointed out until we reached the 18th and Vine Jazz district. There were bands set up along the trail playing for us every few miles and they had a cool jazz band right in front of the blue note. After looping the jazz district we headed back toward crown center and then over to the Freight district where Lydia’s and Jack Stack are. That was the finish line. Here is a pdf if you like http://www.waddellandreedkcmarathon.org/course/documents/halfmarathonmap.pdf

So as you maybe saw above we finished in just over 2 hours at a pace of just under 10 minutes per mile. We ran the whole way and felt good doing it. The course had some rough hills but the weather was fantastic and the wind had not picked up yet. Both H and I beat our time from last April by about 5 minutes and we had barely trained for it. At mile 7 I commented to H that this was the farthest we had run since our last marathon and we 6 miles to go. I was kinda nervous about the race till we got going then it was a lot of fun and felt good.

(and we did not look like a goon)

So we finished and found mom and Peanut and had a Boulevard, a milk, an orange juice, a bottle of water and an apple, bread and a banana. Everyone was getting or still hungry and we went home and changed out some shoes and clothes then went to breakfast at Gomers Chicken (99th and Holmes). It was a great breakfast and everyone was pleased. I got the chicken fried chicken with 2 over easy eggs, wheat toast and a pile of hash browns and it was sooo good and tender and delicioso.

The rest of the weekend we slept and drank water and ate lots and tried not to stand or walk or use our legs any more then necessary.

Sunday night after the chiefs win we decided working on Monday was no good. We were still sore and tired and had not gotten to do much this weekend because of the race so took the day off from work and theprewitt.com. I do apologize for not giving you more notice.