This run took place at Quaker steak and Lube in Middleton on Jan 1. I was not sure if I was going to race, or help out as a volunteer. Then , my mind got made up real quick. I was offered to race in the Quaker Chicken Suit. After being told the chicken record was a 42 I knew I was meant to race on this day.
I donned the suit and ran the one mile kids race as a warm up. Got beat by a few kids. Ran about 6:30. The suit was nice and warm in the cold weather, but it forces you to rebreathe the same air over and over and made me feel tired faster.
I started the 5 mile near the back and started slow. After about the first half mile I started passing people and working towards a new chicken record. In the beginning people were laughing and liked the chicken but near the end, no one wanted to lose to the chicken. In a similar race report, I found this quote from one of the runners: "Mile 4 wasn't so bad, but mile five was dead into the wind, and it felt like the wind had picked up. It was miserable. I saw chicken guy falling apart a bit up ahead, and decided that I had no business losing to that son of a b1tch. So I didn't. I passed him in the last half mile.
I remember speeding up to try to drop this guy but my large head acted as a parachute. I enjoyed the race and had a lot of fun meeting all of the other runners after the race. There were some very fast runners at the front including the girl's assistant cc coach at UW who ran around 6 flat miles.
And it was a new Chicken record. 38:53. Thanks to Race Day Events, Fleet Feet, and Quaker Steak for a great New Year's Day.
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