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"I want you to pray as if everything depends on it, but I want you to prepare yourself as if everything depends on you."
-- Dick LeBeau
Jetton Park is "flattish": not table-top flat, but I'd call it pretty gently rolling. I'm kinda fuzzy on the direction they'll be running it. Coming from the Start toward the park entrance (if it goes that direction) is the worst hill you'd face.
The race did not happen, Darned kids and their spring time sicknesses
MTA the race probably did happen as scheduled, It was just me who could not go.
Lynwood, I might possibly be free SAT morning (not clear quite yet on my schedule). If so, I'll be at the two-mile as a participant, volunteer, or sarcastic onlooker.
Wannabe runner
I liked it! It was a lot of fun and really muddy. The first half was really slow moving and I got behind some walkers in the first mile. I gave up trying for a decent time at that point. My first 3.1 miles were 10 minutes slower than my second. The last half of the course was awesome!
Cindy
Family plans changed, opening up tomorrow morning for me. So I'm racing!
And Lynwood, I have no realistic chance at $$$. Maybe, maybe, I might take my weird 48-55 age group.
All right Cliff. Good to hear. Well, other than the fact I have race you in that weird age group too. I'll shoot for 2nd then. I thought that was strange too.
On the road again...
Family plans changed, opening up tomorrow morning for me. So I'm racing! And Lynwood, I have no realistic chance at $$$. Maybe, maybe, I might take my weird 48-55 age group.
That is a weird age group. Whazzup with that?
I write. I read. I run. One time, I ran a lot on my 50th birthday.
Paul
My guess: I think they wanted to have a specific number of AG awards, so they created AG divisions to get there.
13:32 for my efforts in the 2 mile race. That was fun. Cliff, good to run with you again. I had a surprise girlfriend appearance who brought me coffee, otherwise I would have been glad to run some cool down miles.
Always good to see you. It took me a second to recognize you in the field -- I tend to get that pre-race vision disorder where you see everything, but nothing in particular. You also look like you've lost weight, although maybe you just wore baggy running clothes a couple years ago ... ?
I was locked onto Bobby Aswell, a local runner who's my age and wins his AG almost all the time. He went out relatively hard and was ahead of me by 12sec at the 1mi mark. I was reeling him in over the second mile ... but ran out of asphalt. Didn't kick when I saw it was hopeless, lost the AG by 7sec. Really good race, though, and a great event.