I guess I could say first off that the overall place is the team place. The division is mixed. Are team was made up of Terry Bean (44) running the first leg, Anjee Chynoweth (43) running the second leg, Me Matthew Mackey (38) running the third, Erin Zundel (22) running 4th, and Nate Harward (25) run the 5th and final leg.
I also know the race was billed and advertised as being 1/5th the distance 1/5th the pain. But deep down I believe the course is short. Terry's Garmin measured 5.08 and Anjee's Measured 5.09 I know the first leg is supposed to be slightly less but it looks pretty close to me. I just don't think each leg is 5.2.
The race is a little bit of a party because every runner runs the same course as it goes on more runners get spread out and lots of people stick around. I got there just before 6:30 because I was really the only one on the team who knew everyone. I saw Terry first about 6:40 I had him run first because he had obligations with scouts and soccer that morning and I know he loves to go first. Plus he was our fastest runner. I know he blogged his own race results so I will leave you to read them at
http://oldbean.fastrunningblog.com/blog-09-12-2009.html
Needless to say, I thought he did wonderful and he brought us into a strong 3rd postion with a time of 32:38, I'll have to double check but I believe that was a few seconds then he did last year. He passed to Anjee and she took off. She is an amazing runner and very fun to watch. Where some people make running look difficult she makes it look effortless although as most people think she probably doesn't believe it. I know Anjee from the gym and I have wanted to do a race with her for awhile so I was thrilled when she excepted. She is extremly modest and like a lot of people extra critical of herself but when you grade for the sexes I don't come close to her speed.. Her time was about 34:52 which netted us 1:07:30 It was hard for me to remember exactly because I grabbed the baton hit my watch and saw the clock just as I wizzed by.
Before the race started I went to a father and sons camp out the night before. I cam home that night late and woke up at 2:30 AM couldn't go back to sleep. Pre race my tummy finally felt normal proably because I was up so long and I didn't eat much the night before. I ate a power bar drank gatorade, took pseduphedrine, imodium, my stomach medicine prilosec, 1 5 hour energy and some N. ). Explode. When Terry took off I warmed up a little and when Anjee was running a little bit more mixed in with a few potty Breaks. I was fully Hydrated the scale show my BG at 7.8 that morning. The achilles felt fine and I never noticed it.
When Anjee handed me the baton I was in 2nd she passed one guy during her run. The other guy was 40 seconds ahead. The first mile marker was off and I hit it in 5:11 and I passed the first runner about 90 seconds later. HR for 1st was 168 so I felt like I didn't push it to hard but I backed of a little because I didn't know the marker was wrong. The 2nd mile marker came at 6:42 My HRA was 171 This is where you hit the big hill 95 foot climb in about .3 miles I really gunned it up the hill and pressed on Mile 3 came at 7 mins flat HRA 173, Mile 4 is then down hill and I logged that at 6:27 HRA 173, the fith mile you go past the start and the crowds run down on a flat turn a circle and come back it took me 6:37 HR 174 last .2 in 74 secs. It is a little off though because I passed the baton off to Erin towards the end I wanted her to get going and I took it from Anjee more towards the beginning. I have been hitting the last bit in close to 70 secs all season. Of course it could have just been all the turning.
I felt Great and we were at about 1:41:44 Last year Erin ran a 44:56 so I was expecting her at about the same but she came around a lot quicker in just under 41 mins. I know she was pretty pumped about that as well. Nate took off and cam back at the same time we finshed at about 3:02:47 I am still waiting for the results to be published. All in all it was a good day.
I beleive we took 2nd overall and first in the Mixed but I am still waiting for the results I took off for a soccer game and everyone else was taking off as well. Mikayla had a tie 0-0 and Brit won 4-3 after that we had other obligations and it was a long night. But it was a great race and the team had a lot of fun. | 