At home -- after the run...... (I have no idea how to make these post in the right order, or how to switch them)
yeah buuuuuudddddyyyyyy...... beer, at 7am.
hmmmm, mystery missing bark -- we need to find a suspect (or a cause)
looks like some disease.
the beach was beautiful, before the run :-)hmmm...... a bit deceiving is all I'm gonna say right off the bat.......
This was titled as the "Running Wild for the Zoo" 5K Run/Walk...... so, without reading every word in the entry form pamphlet, we assumed we were gonna run through the zoo and make the zoo some $$$..... simple enough, right?!?!?!
This was an uuber cheap race ($12 with T-shirt/$6 without tee!!!) and advertised to have a beer/water table at the 2.5 mile mark, **aaaaaaaAnd** it's main sponsor is Miller Lite....... yup, this one is gonna be fun!!!!
Chris had to go pick up our babysitter at 6:30am, she was still sleeping, so he had to wait for the poor thing to wake up and get ready!!!! As soon as he got home with her, we were out the door -- we were rushing to leave BEFORE Jill woke up, I was afraid she would give our sitter a real hard time if she saw me leave, it's much easier when she wakes up to find mommy gone!!!!!
We arrived with MORE than enough time (yay!!!) After a highly unorganized packet pick-up, we went potty and went for a walk along the beach. Then, we got bored (big surprise, eh??) so we decided to be arborist apprentices and we spent a good 25 minutes inspecting all the trees in the park and trying to figure out why bark was coming off select ones, then we got bored with that so we decided to take lots of really dumb pics!!!! (i love my husband, he truly lets me be Julie whenever I can be!!!)
Finally, we decided to get serious and get ready for this race!!! After a last ditch potty stop, I got Garmined up, he got re-laced and we headed over to the start. Another one of these dumb bull-horn things that no one can hear, AND they forgot to block traffic at the start, so there were just 400+ runner/walkers blobbed up in the road to "block" traffic... great, just great.
Then, fairly suddenly, there is a loud noise to signify the start. I hit start on my newly borrowed Garmin, and we're off.
At the whopping .27, there is a HUGE, steep hill to climb up!!! This thing was intense!!!! But, once we were up that, things evened out a bit for a while. We were running down streets in a beach town, which means the streets are rather narrow and un-even, which is loads of fun for running!!! I hit the 1 mile at 8:43, and I felt great!!! It was becoming kinda hot, but there was lots of shade, and lots of people to look at!!! I had been debating over whether or not I was actually gonna get any beer at the 2.5, and based on how well things were going, I decided yes, a beer while running would be just fine, and funny as well :-)
The 2nd mile flew by, and according to my Garmin, I was averaging a 9:02 mile!!!!! I hit the 2 at 17:12 (according to my Garmin) and I was really LOVING this run........
until things changed, a lot.
we went down a sand path, to the beach. once we hit the lake, it was a left turn for the next MILE. 5,280 feet of running on the sand. and we were COMPLETELY unprepared for this!!!!! Once I hit the lake, I decided to take my shoes off to run faster.....a little side note here. I always tie my van key onto my left shoe. I do this for training runs as well as races. We leave everything in the van and I have a key, the only key we have to get back to our 'everything' we've left in the van, our phones, his wallet and his keys, the rest of my keys.... you know, everything.
Weeeeeeeellllll, when i went to take my shoe off, the key went flying, and landed in the sand. The dry sand. IN, in, IN the sand...... it took me 3:16 to fins this stupid key!!!! Runners were pissed at me, b/c I was right in there path (naturally, the key couldn't have landed anywhere BUT the path, right?!?!?!) so, after spending that long hunched over to find my key, I was pissed, frustrated, and had 2 crampy legs to run with. Lovely, just freakin lovely!!!! I managed to hit a whopping 9:26 pace for that last mile, but it was rough!!!! And, for the last 25-30 yards, I had to run barefoot through a VERY hot parking lot.... it was fun.
And, the worst part (aside from the key frustration) -- there was NO beer table!!!! There was no table at the 2.5, and the 2 mile table was just water!!!!
We did get some warm (and I mean warm) beer after the run, and Chris got a bratwurst and some picnic type sides to go with his beer, so I guess it was all OK on his end, he got beer and food!! Though, neither one of us could finish our beers, they were that warm!!!!
Chris finished in the top 200 and got a "Running Wild for the Zoo Top 200" finishers patch, so way to go Chris-Chris :-)
This race was definitely hard, and a bit deceiving, no beer and a 1 mile sand run...... ugh!
I say no way to doing this again next year, Chris still wants to....
(I'm betting he'll win and I'll give it to do it again next year anyways!!!)
Chris:
27:14~~~ finish
8:47~~~ mile
7th out of 11~~~ 30-34 year old male
143 out of 420~~~ overall finish
Julie
(ugh, it pains me to type/admit this!!!!!0
31:09 ~~~ finish
10:03 ~~~ mile
8th out of 18 ~~~ 30-34 year old female
235 out of 420~~~ overall finish
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