Awesome Lakefront Marathon Day for ThunderDome Running athletes

Yesterday was the 31st annual Lakefront Marathon in Milwaukee, WI and with the weather cooperating and the work put in over the past few months ThunderDome Running was ready to roll.

Marek Kotrly, 40, from Brookfield, WI, raced to a 3rd place finish in 2:35:23 a personal best and was the top overall Master's finisher. Marek used almost an unbelievable last 1/2 of the race to run his best marathon ever.  He used a huge negative split running the first 13.1 miles in 78:47 and then coming back 2+ minutes faster over the last 13.1 miles in a split of 76:30 to clock the 2:35 3rd place finish.

Cheryl Myszka carried out her race plan perfectly running a time of 4:30:10. A couple months back Cheryl's goal was to run 5 hours but she put in the work and ran a great 10:19 mile pace at Lakefront. Cheryl also carried out her race plan perfectly being patient early on running the first 13.1 miles in 2:19:31 and then came storming back in 2:10:39.

Congrats to Cheryl and Marek. Next up for ThunderDome Running is the Chicago Marathon Sunday, Oct 9.