Mardi Gras Mambo - Run

It was a dreary day.... wet and overcast...but the temp was only 49 which is just about perfect running temp for me. I decided during the first mile to attempt a PR. Originally it was going to just be a training day. I figured with my Garmin I could pace properly. It worked. After the intial shake out of the group I was hardly passed by anyone and passed people through out the race. I even had a duel with a few people at the end and managed to yo-yo a win out them.... Made the last half mile fun.

Nothing. I was worried that my Garmin wouldn register with the overcast weather so I decided to wear the HR monitor so if it didn't work I would have SOME data. I am SOOOOOO GLAD I wore it now. More on this at the end.

No warm down...just walked around and eventually ate some Jambalaya.


Nothing. This was a PR for me


Well here is my beef..although I am not as mad about it now as I was immediately after the race. When the race people couldn't find my number they gave me a new number and tore off my info tag at the bottom. This was about an hour pre-race. Well when I finished the race, after PR'ing the distance, I had no info-number-tag to tear off and give to the ladies collecting them.

They told me that I was out of luck and it would not be recorded. I got pissed. I was a gentleman about it but after talking to 4 or 5 people about what happend I decided to give up. I wrote down the time on the clock (which was 20 seconds slower than my Garmin time) and turned it in. We shall see if I am ever given credit for this PR in a 10k.

I was behind Debbie Ellington in the chute where they were collecting the tags so when the results come out I will see if that matches up.

So I had to give them a "NO" in the organized part of the evaluation.

I could tell they understood and were sorry for the mishap. But I am still not going down in the anals of Mambo history now :(