I paced myself well this time and didn't go out too fast (a little applause here because that in itself was a major accomplishment today). The first part of the course was challenging because it was up an incline AND against the wind. I stuck with my plan of increasing my effort at each mile and pushed it hard coming home. I wanted so bad to shave some time off my PR of 29:05 ... it didn't happen ... but it will ... with time and training and experience.

Dress warmer ... oh my gosh ... the temp was 41 when I left the house which is nice for running but the race was in a very open area and the wind came howlin' down ... I froze my butt off.

Yikes ... as usual ... this got lost in my sprint to the bagel line.


Too many people trying to maneuver through one narrow twisty bike path ... the wind was freezing ... and I was fricken' cold ... but a good training experience for handling those situations.


This was the most disorganized race I've participated in. The race started a half hour late and people were so tired of standing around in the cold wind ... we just wanted to run and get home to our turkey dinner. Then they screwed up the first place finisher, announcing the wrong name, thank goodness this person was not there to accept the medal. Several people brought it to the attention of the official timing company and after a half hour squabble the medal was finally given to the deserving young man who earned it. This was a chip timed race but there wasn't a mat to track the starting time ... just the finishing time ... what's up with that ... and the official time for me is not the time that was showing on the clock when I hit the mat. It took so long to gather the data for the awards ceremony that only a handful of people were even left in the area. Next year I'll do the Mile Hi Turkey Trot which benefits needy families.