The plan pre-sitter-late was to run 10 - 10:30 miles and take it easy since we just did the Shamrock 1/2 a week or so ago and wern't really ready to race hard. Also having bad allergies this week or so splitting headaches from sinus's (SP?) so glad we wern't really planning on running it for good times.

Sprinted to the start line trying to find a volunteer to ask if we could still run, finally found someone and she said that so long as we caught up to the sweep bus we could run.

I figure we were the last people to start. Clock time 2:09:38, Watch says 0811 we started and the elites started at 0740

They were pulling the barrier across the road to close the course and we had to yell at the guys to wait and they let us through. First mile we were hauling a$$ to find the sweep bus. Passed the street sweepers, looked down at the watch, running a 7:30 mile at that point.

LOL, first mile done in 8:06, 2nd mile done in 8:56, passed the sweep van at the end of memorial bridge.

Ended up finally catching the field and just put it on cruise control at that point.


Make sure we were there on time...

Walked around to find water, what a mess, there are 15,000 people in this race and they had some tables set up in a field that wasn't roped off so tourists, spectators and everyone else seemed to be in there. Finally got some water, muffin and a bananna.



Wasn't planning on racing this race, just using it as training.


We just wanted to do this race to see what it was all about, very popular in the DC area. really running in the same spots I do when training, was nice to see the cherry blossoms.

Everything turned out ok in the end but quite a morning.