Other guys run with the big dogs...
11/26/07 10:02 AM *Adventure
... and here I am trotting with the turkeys!
I ran the "six" mile Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving with nearly 700 other folks, including my middle daughter and Mrs Runalong. The babes were just hoping to break 90 minutes but they ran sub 12 minute miles and both finished in 1:08 and change. I was shooting for 45 minutes, having run it in around 43 minutes, several years ago. It's been a long time since I ran a race shorter than a marathon.
It was fun for about a mile and the rest of the way I just wanted it to be over. I was talking to friends when the gun went off and started near the back of the pack, forced to walk and pick my way through several hundred recreational runners for the first (slow) mile; then I picked it up to about a 7:40 pace. At the mile 5 marker I realized I would have to run the last mile under 6 minutes to break 45 so I eased off a little. Imagine my surprise when, as I approached the finish, the clock read 45:03... 45:04...
Turns out the last "mile" was only 0.75 so I could have broken 45, albeit on a short course. I also ran to the course and back home again for a total of 19 or so miles for the day. Ted snapped my pic at the finish:
I ran the "six" mile Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving with nearly 700 other folks, including my middle daughter and Mrs Runalong. The babes were just hoping to break 90 minutes but they ran sub 12 minute miles and both finished in 1:08 and change. I was shooting for 45 minutes, having run it in around 43 minutes, several years ago. It's been a long time since I ran a race shorter than a marathon.
It was fun for about a mile and the rest of the way I just wanted it to be over. I was talking to friends when the gun went off and started near the back of the pack, forced to walk and pick my way through several hundred recreational runners for the first (slow) mile; then I picked it up to about a 7:40 pace. At the mile 5 marker I realized I would have to run the last mile under 6 minutes to break 45 so I eased off a little. Imagine my surprise when, as I approached the finish, the clock read 45:03... 45:04...
Turns out the last "mile" was only 0.75 so I could have broken 45, albeit on a short course. I also ran to the course and back home again for a total of 19 or so miles for the day. Ted snapped my pic at the finish:
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