Pasadena 10K - Run

The race got delayed by 10 mins, and by 7:10am it was already plenty hot. Kept my eye on the contestants up front, and saw a couple of dudes looking my age and fast. Kicked off and one of them got dropped almost right away, and the other one was nowhere to be found. When I got to the turnoff by the 134 freeway, ran into the back of the 1/2 marathon and had to work my way through the crowd of walkers. The run back up the ramp was a decent climb, and did I mention that it was plenty hot by that time? Passed a few more runners as I was running miles 5 and 6. Saw the crowd at the finish line but could not see the finish chute! By then my Garmin was showing that I ran almost 6.5 miles and I was wondering if I had missed the finish line altogether.

Not sure. Did not do a ton of running since the Malibu Creek event.

Not a ton, grabbed some food and headed back home as I had a flight to catch in the evening.


The heat, the flight later that day... did not come out to kill it that day.


Apparently, things fell apart later on and the race organizers ran out of water, good and medals for the slower 1/2ers. I did not see it, but the fact that the course was mismeasured and no clearly visible finish chute was used kinda sucked. I emailed the organizers and they admitted that the course's length was not certified - i.e. f..ed up.