Big Lake Half Marathon and Make-A-Wish

[LakesRegionSpirit]

Congrats to the 50 runners (of the almost 1,200) taking part in today's Big Lake Half that raised over $20,000 for New Hampshire's Make-A-Wish Foundation. Job well done.

[AmericanBoatClub]

very well done!!!

[Shore Driver]

Congrats to them! Finished my first half marathon at Big Lake and was running amongst several ladies with the pledge bib.

Really fun event and the weather was incredible. :coolsm:

[LakesRegionSpirit]

Shore Driver,

Congrats on your first Half. The Big Lake is NOT an easy course as I am sure you found out between miles 7 and 10.5 with the rollers on Woodland and the climb at mile 9. That is my home course, as I live in Gilford.

Check out the photos here: http://lakesregionspirit.com/mmedia/

Maybe you are in some of them. :liplick:

[Shore Driver]

Shore Driver,

Congrats on your first Half. The Big Lake is NOT an easy course as I am sure you found out between miles 7 and 10.5 with the rollers on Woodland and the climb at mile 9. That is my home course, as I live in Gilford.

Check out the photos here: http://lakesregionspirit.com/mmedia/

Maybe you are in some of them. :liplick:

Thanks! The rollers on Woodland were fun, the steep curving downhill at the beginning was obnoxious but I was in a really good frame of mind through that section. The road was pretty hammered with frost heaves and sandy spots, which was as much a consideration for me as the rollers were. The homes are beautiful.

The real challenge for me was between miles 11 and 12 where you come back out onto 11 from 11D and it goes uphill. Ugh. I spent all of that mile saying "WHERE is Mile 12??":D

[lawn psycho]

I love the chalk messages on the road. Didn't run it this year but in the hilly section they lie to you and tell you it's the last hill and then when you get to the next hill they chalk in, "oops, we lied". Love that kind of humor during events. Not sure if the same race director is still doing big lake though.

Big Lake is my PR course as the last time I ran it was right before an Ironman so I was on my A game. Seems every time I've run it the wind is wipping or it's raining. From the photos in 2004 someone actually got a shot of me running in the rain and it's in the gallery looking like a wet rat:banana:

[LakesRegionSpirit]

LP: Keith Jordan and Endorfun have taken the race back this year. Funny you say this is a PR course for you. It is one of my slowest. I lose 1 to 2 minutes on this course. And, yes the weather was finally good this year. It has suffered in past years with a bit of wet stuff.

[lawn psycho]

LP: Keith Jordan and Endorfun have taken the race back this year. Funny you say this is a PR course for you. It is one of my slowest. I lose 1 to 2 minutes on this course. And, yes the weather was finally good this year. It has suffered in past years with a bit of wet stuff.

The ONLY reason it was a PR course is normally on years I've done Ironman my schedule included almost no races. I did this course after a winter of 50-60 mile run weeks and I nailed it (sub 1:30 I had been chasing and finally broke). No doubt had I done a flatter course I would have shaved off even more time but as it stands today, Big L is my fastest 13.1 I'm woefully out of shape right now for cardio right now thanks to traveling for work and being on the road (20 pounds heavier than I should be too, DOH!) I think I'm going to use this to ramp up the training albeit it on hotel treadmills. I miss the long bike rides too.

Keith also does the Timberman Tri as RD and is as good as it gets when it comes to race details.

Edit: I have really like the fact that Make-A-Wish was the recipient of that many donations. Very well run organization and worthy cause.

[AB_Monterey]

Wish I had known about this race, I'd have signed up.

I ran my first half, the NH Marathon/half marathon, around Newfound Lake last October. That was a pretty flat course.

Ran the Miami Marathon in January and Sarasota half in March.

The "hills" on those races were the bridges. :rolleye1: