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Edited on Sun Sep-30-07 08:21 PM by underpants
Yesterday morning (7 freakin' AM) the McDonald's X-country challenge
FREE McDonald's prepackaged apples to all who finished!!!
My first race of any kind since a 10K 8 years ago. I signed up Friday afternoon just to get some experience with the "race day" atmosphere and schedule. I got there so early Saturday morning that I parked right in front of the gate to Maymont park, lots of free bananas at that time of day.
2:15:33 much better than I expected especially since it was not a road course run. I planned on running at my basic marathon pace to get an idea of a time. Problem was that as a cross country race getting into a roll or a pace is tough. There were 4 water stops which I had planned on stopping at but also at least 6 interruptions: trails, staircases (one up-one down), some rocky spots, and a nasty switchback that I knew from previous experience is not worthy the time savings in the energy it takes to RUN up it as opposed to walking. The interruptions did give me a chance to catch my breath but they really kill time.
2:15 not bad for a 40 year old ex-smoker (20+ years) who weighed in at 290 8 months ago... at least I think so.
Marathon day is 6 weeks away.
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