Well I finished, and that's considering this was the first time I ever considered dropping out of a race while I was actually in my corral. I felt sick the entire first half of the race, but after that my stomach settled and my head stopped pounding and I could concentrate on running. My pace picked up in the second half as I tried to lengthen my stride to compensate for my slower pace, which worked well. The finish was kind of demoralizing since I didn't really get a good look at the course map ahead of time, when we rounded the corner of 40th and the boardwalk, I thought the finish line was at Neptune's Park, only about 8 blocks away... WRONG, there was still over a mile to go at that point. This is a fun race, like most of the beach races, with the costumes and party, but either I have to stop scheduling my birthday parties for the night before this race, or they need to move it to another weekend because I definitely don't want to run it next year hung over again.

The party last night was worth it though.