Just a short followup with some unhappiness at the Cowtown. I mentioned that I was fairly well done with the day after the race. I bee-lined to my 'get a ride home' pick up point, failing to pick up my commemorative cowbell and Team In Training pin. (The still wonderful mentor, Judy, supplied both.)
The other thing I failed to do was get my grab bag. Most races (I've learned) will give you a bag to stick stuff that you don't want to run in, but want to pick up after. Well, I wandered off and left my many-years-old 4D jacket behind. And yes, that's a banana in my pocket. And no, I'm no sure why my brain is exuding so much light.
The race staff returned my call yesterday and said they'd take a look. But I have it on good authority that the bag is probably gone.
The second major sad point was the failure of the Nike+ Sport Band. I never got it to calibrate right, so it wasn't a useful tool to track my runs, but the pace setting was close enough for me. I wanted to use that to help me not go out to fast early on (a standard newbie mistake) and to maintain pace once I was out.
Well, it failed utterly at even that. The pace data would go blank, shoot to 22 min mile (crawling?) and back to the reasonably accurate. Bleh. Fortunately, by the end of the run, pace wasn't an issue.