First day  legs dont hurt while walking.

 

So normally I would run  about now,  and then the legs would hurt within 2 miles, sometimes at half a mile.

 

 

 

Any suggestion on how long to wait before  I train again?

Hey Cash, sorry about your legs.  Not sure what to tell you...  remind me what the injury is again?

Lou- I resent it... Just my cell in case you need to get in touch this morning.

Couldn't fall asleep and woke up at 3:30 and couldn't go back to sleep.      Should make for a fun race.

Wish I could be there with you guys this morning.  Run well and fast!

Thanks guys -- Kim had a great race which I am sure she'll want to tell you about herself.

Harriet may have PR'd -- her Garmin was within 1 second.

I ran 1:47:31 (by Garmin), off my PR by 10 minutes, but that was expected due to lack of speed in recent training.  No pain, though, and at a decent pace for (most of) 13.1

Of course I should have mentioned Paul and his friend as well -- they had a good race, too -- Paul's friend has been running only 7 months and held up well, and Paul's time tells me he can run a pretty fast marathon as well, i.e., that he held back in Richmond and better times are to come.

We also saw Perry and his DW, who had most excellent times.  

In all a great day!

We're headed out to find a coffee shop, maybe to read in a park or something -- it's beautiful here!

As Groucho Marx said, 

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.

Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Ah, yeah, I noticed your time  was off on the unofficial results Kim -- I had forgotten how late you started -- they clearly didn't get your net time right.

 

Really enjoyed lunch -- thanks for coming everyone! Great company. And good food too. I did well by just imitating Harriet and Lou in the ordering     Next I'm gonna follow Lou's lead and join maniacs and get me one of them shirts with the funny guys on it.

 

I saw that shirt in the race and thought it looked familiar and wondered what race it was from. Then at lunch I saw Lou had that shirt on,  so I asked Harriet what race it was from. She didn't understand immediately the nonsense I was babbling   then she explained it is the maniacs logo. Ahhh.

 

 

By the way, Lou, I actually only qualified once last year for maniacs, doing two in 14 days, exactly the way you qualified as I recall. I just didn't get to doing it then -- now I've seen the shirt and I like it.

C saw a dead pig by the side  of the highway heading south. How's that for out of the ordinary?

 

C says she bested her 10K PR in the first 10K of the Half -- she faded later, and wanted to quit, and really didn't enjoy the rest. Plenty of signs there for going out just a weeeee bit fast (heh), and she's just observing that going out too fast is maybe not the optimal strategy.

 

It's great that Kim and Harriet and Paul and my DW and myself actually all had great races. And I think it is really great that Lou raced pain-free.

Wow!  Nice race for C!  And a pig on the side of the road how weird is that?

We also saw something you don't see every day.  We were walking down 15th Street (I think), and there were a bunch of cops blocking off E street.  So we walked up but they wouldn't let us cross.  We figured the president was coming back from the capital -- it was about 4:30 -- no doubt he went to the house to twist some arms, then the motorcade came in to the white house right in front of us.  Pretty cool.  Interesting that they have an ambulance follow him around, I assume just in case of the worst.  I got some pictures of some black cars and limousines, but I don't know how they came out yet.