Time: 8:30am start time
Where: Ran to Hec Ed start line (2 miles); Race Course (5 miles); ran most of the way home (1 miles); walked rest of the way home (1 mile) = 9.
Workout: The goal for this week’s training was 11 but I ran those 5 miles at a 9:05 pace, so I’m ok with skipping out of the last 2 miles. I also spent a 2-3 hours walking around the Zoo later in the day. We’re good.
Notes and observations: My race time was not much different over last year.9:05 in 2012 vs 9:06 in 2011. Total time 45:07. However the difference for me was that I ran twice as much as I did last year. I also learned … and pushed my way towards the faster paced runners so I could having to bob and weave around the slowpokes for the first mile. Here’s what people do at Beat the Bridge. You see, the goal is to run over the University Bridge before they raise it, 20 minutes after the last runner crosses the start line. So the slowpokes try to start with the elite runners so that they have more than 20 minutes to make it over the bridge. No one told me that. You see lots of out-of-shapers huffing and puffing their way through the U-District. Meanwhile us honest runners, the ones who will actually make it within the time limit minimum huffing and puffing, are forced to stop and go around all the huffers. It’s harder that way.

Not that I’m complaining. All for a good cause. Good practice to run with loads of people. Yadda Yadda.

The weather was much nicer, though by the time I was jogging home on the trail it started sprinking and I had become quite cold. Had a little bit of a runny/stuffy nose thing going for a couple of days afterwards. Ah well.

Good race. Glad I did it.

Music: Foo Fighters. Also softly. For no good reason, really.