Nice work, Tour of Eau Claire.
On Sunday, I was one of about 1,000 from all over the region, running, sweating and gasping all throughout Eau Claire for the first Tour of Eau Claire, a 13.1-mile marathon through the north side, downtown, UW-Eau Claire campus and then back through the Bike Trail along Half Moon Lake.
I covered Grandma's Marathon in Duluth for five years, where 15,000 runners come to a town of 85,000 to run a full-marathon, half-marathon and 5K race. For a first-time, the Tour organizers did a spectacular job of keeping us all hydrated, directed and, essentially, babied all along the course.
Okay...now the goods: My time...2:10. I was absolutely humming, rolling along at about 8:45 mile clips until just past Mile 10. Then the blisters hit -- apparently, my experiment of "two socks on the left, one sock on the right" didn't work so hot -- and I was hampered in an odd, run/walk the last three miles. Still, so many people came out to cheer all of us on and, no surprise, the other runners were fairly jovial.
Well done on this one for the organizers. I'll be ready for next year and, after that, I want to see if I can slide over to Green Bay in the last three weeks for the run/bike Duathlon to close out the summer season.
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