Here it is! In October! Race #20! Race #20! In retrospect, it seems pretty fast! Where did the races go?
Mark and I arrived at the Stadium Armory for packet pick up after school on Friday. Somehow we ended up in different waves...with Mark in the wave behind me. Not sure how that happened.
Saturday night we went out to dinner with Tracey and David at Red Rock, a local pizza place. It was a great race meal--one for the two of us and Tracey as well. We agreed to meet up the next morning at 6:45 am at L'Enfant Plaza to Metro to the start together.
All went well and we got there with plenty of time to go! We went through a check point and it was there that an soldier told me that there were no electronic devices permitted past that point---arg! I had to put my music in a bag and bag check it. Double arg because not only did I have no music for ten miles, but I had to use my bathroom time to wrestle the masses back toward bag check.
I told Mark to hop in line and that hopefully we would find each other at the start. Surprisingly I found him at the port-o-potties when I returned, got in line myself (no, I did not cut) and we walked to the start. We got there with a minute and a half to go before the gun for the race went off! Talk about timing!
The race was a great course. It was pretty packed race---people, people everywhere! It was wonderful to run my 20th race with Mark.
And even crazier, we ran into Tracey at bag pick up and were able to catch up on our respective races as we rode the subway together back to L'Enfant Plaza.
It was a great day for all and a terrific way to celebrate the completion of my New Year's Resolution!
Mark and I headed to the City Diner and celebrated with yummy egg and cheese sandwiches on everything bagels, with double hashbrowns of course. :)
#21 to come next week! :) Yup, you didn't think I could just quit registering for races cold turkey did you?
Splits:
Mile 1 9:18.59
Mile 2 8:57.81
Mile 3 9:11.86
Mile 4 9:09.61
Mile 5 11:46.61 (bathroom break)
Mile 6 8:47.29
Mile 7&8 19:19.63
Mile 9 8:55.59
Mile 10 8:54.58
Total 1:34.18
Official time:
| 8780 | TRENKLE, AMY | F35 | WASHINGTON DC | 9965 | 2895/9594 | 512/1682 | 1:03:53 | 1:34:18 |
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