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Thanks Cliff.  I turned that suffer-fest into something fun.  My plan was to run the first two easy miles fairly hard, and a nice tempo pace for the 1.1 mile climb. Worked great.  This is the first Twighlight 5k I enjoyed.

And Richard, congrats on being a State Champion!  I hope that came with some awesome swag -- maybe a barrel of tobacco.

 

What was the weather like for that HM?  Your time was slower than you'd hoped, so ... humid as heck?

Thanks... It was humid for sure.  The award for winning was kind of underwhelming... it's a little tile looking thingy that says "Road Runners Club of America -- RRCA Championship Race -- 2013 State Champion." It's made well but nothing to jump up and down about. Like most other things for old age groupers, most of what you come away with is bragging rights. By the way, it's absolutely identical to the one that I won in Memphis in March for the State of Tennessee, so I guess it's just a standard thing they give out across the country.

They were way more hills than I expected but not as bad as the Kings Mountain half last month, and I was about 5 minutes slower on this one. I had what I thought was a cold all last week and was coughing quite a bit in the race, and have felt even worse since the race, so I went to the doctor today and he said my bronchitis had flared up and put me on a prednisone dose pack and some kind of codeine cough medicine that's made me about half loopy.

Very nice Richard!  Congratulations.

Congrats to you too Lynwood... Looks like we're gonna start crossing paths soon in some of these races since you're getting faster and I'm getting slower! Are you running China Grove this year?