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Comments: My wave went off at 8:47, I quickly realized that my cow bell costume was a total pain in the keester. I had to hold it up the entire course or it would go lopsided. Made it challenging to keep loose and have fun with the crowd/ volunteers. Given that my ankle and leg were bothering me most of the week I was trying to let the body parts dictate my effort. Did pretty well keeping my effort in check. Loved the Spirit group that had all the glitter. They made for a fun group. There were a fair number of other spirit groups out there but the glitter girls seemed most enthusiastic. The bands were pretty good. Most of them made comments about needing more cowbell as I ran by which was always amusing since that's what I say all the time. Really tried to pick up my effort at the 5 mile mark, but somehow missed that mile marker and the next thing I knew I was at 6 miles so I turned on the "after burners" as best as I could. What would you do differently?: NOT try and make a costume with a hula hoop in it again. Less to get messed up in.  Post race
Warm down: Walked around Monroe Park, grabbed 3 bottles of water and a banana..... What limited your ability to perform faster: my costume irritation from the leg and ankle all week had made my running even questionable for the day Event comments: My favorite race, I don't try to do it for PR because it is capped at 40,000 participants and you have to be in the first few waves to really have a clear course. The overall winners did it in 28 minutes, local runners top field were around 31 minutes. Freaking FAST! Not sure how many women in my AF (50-54) but I was 432 of that group. 5801 of all women 9310 of 40,000 Not a bad day at all. Profile Album Last updated: 2013-01-11 12:00 AM
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Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers
55F / 13C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 9310/40,000
Age Group = Age50-54 women
Age Group Rank = 432/
Up early, breakfast...drive to Richmond. Love the shuttle from the Diamond to the race site. Worth the money to not have to find a parking lot and deal with the road closures in the city when I don't know my way around it.
Waited for Jen, just hung out by the costume judging area. Porta potty stop--she laughed because when I set my cow bells down they fell to the floor and all you could hear was clanging bells.
On our walk over to the start area we overheard a man giving his daughter instructions for the kids 1 mile run. "Remember, go easy the first quarter mile" DUDE, the kid is maybe 5 or 6 at the most. To her a quarter mile has no relevance, it might mean first few seconds....We had a good laugh