Congratulations on all your races... and then some. Poorly marked courses are a real bummer, but I've come to expect one or two per year. These should make for some interesting Hospice times.

I just looked through the 2008 Hospice 5k results, and sure enough there's Julie. She beat Joe by almost nine minutes!

The 10k was hardly competitive for our age group last year. These were the top three times in our division (not including the overall winner, who was 29). 13 2/11 575 Michael Wilhelm 20 Leonardtown MD 44:34 7:11 16 3/11 300 David Brown 29 Lexington Park M 46:26 7:29 20 4/11 416 Jamie Morganstern 22 Saint Mary's City 47:41 7:41 If the field's competitiveness doesn't increase this year, I think it's quite possible that me, Phil, and Rick could nab gold, silver, and bronze --- thought not necessarily in that order.

How do you find last year's results? I find that runforhospice.org website pretty unfriendly.

Just go to the CBRC website's results section and scroll down a bit.

Keep Your Colon Rollin' 5k at Jefferson Patterson Park, 28 March 2009 The course was 40% muddy gravel, 40% grass, 19% road, and 1% beach. It had rained overnight, though the rain was never really present during any of the event. Conditions were very wet, which meant on the muddy gravel that you had to always be ready to slip and that the grass may be hiding a puddle beneath your foot. It slowed the times by a little bit, but I did not personally see anyone fall during the race. I began the race planning to take the first mile at a decent clip, try to beat that time in the second mile, and then cruise to the finish. This course did not want me to do that, though. The second mile had a few very mild hills, but they were enough to make me realize there was no way I could run my second mile as well as my first, which may have led to me slowing more than I should have. I ran a 7:30 first mile, 8:30 second mile, and 8:00 third mile. I finished in a time of 25:08. At about a mile into the race, I was passed by two runners who looked like they might be in my age group. The one shot ahead pretty quickly, but the other guy slowed almost right after passing me. The one guy got about a 300 meter lead by 2 miles and the other guy about a 200 meter lead. When I hit the second mile marker, I resolved to try and catch one of these guys. Thanks to there being no more real inclines, I was able to move faster and gain ground on the guy in front of me. I actually got to within 100 meters, but it was too late. I finished in 25:08 and thought I may have gotten 4th in my age group. One nice thing about this race is that you cross the leaders twice, so I got to say hello to Perry twice. Perry finished 2nd overall in a time around 19:50 (and he can correct me with an actual time). The first place finisher was named Noah something in like 19:20 and I think this is the same guy who talked to DR or Phil or somebody after maybe Chaptico last year. He was given both first overall and first in the age group. Dave Walser was second in the age group and some guy named Matt Brennan was third in the age group. The third guy's time was like 21:09, if I remember correctly, so now I'm really not sure what I finished in the age group. The course had a lot of volunteers, so nobody really got lost, but I swear I saw some people trying to get lost... or cut some distance. The awards took a little while due to some people not putting their bib numbers on their shirts. I would be glad to run the race in the future based on today. I expected to run something around 25:08, so it was kind of a meh race, but at least I know that my mind has a pretty good grasp of what my body can do.

Perry, how do you get warmup and warmdown to show as options for run type?