Rattlesnake Olympic 2006
What is that big orange thing up in the sky? The Olympic distance race was Sunday and the sun actually came out. So did the lunatics. @ 6 in the morning you should still be dreaming of sitting on the couch drinking beer all day. There were 4 of us out there who can’t afford new clothes for the winter. Burning calories instead of drinking them means we need belts and warm hoodies. Jim came through for those of us who raced the “Crazy back-to-back”.
Tanner, Sybil, Mini Megan, Joni and the mysterious Steve Perkins all showed up to do just this one. ! think this is the only race Steve’s done this year.
Mary, the Aussie (Oy Oy Oy), rounded up all the girls in the vicinity and made me turn around so they could laugh about my team shorts thinning. !’m not buying it for a second, butt ! can’t see behind me.
Into the same puddle we swam in yesterday. Today it was teeth-chattering cold. Steve was warming up by staying out of the water @ least until Tanner waded in. Those Clydesdales really raise the water level. Jim’s just mean. The sadistic 2-race weekend and then having Tanner start less than 2 minutes behind me for the 2 lap swim. Our ambassador to Hungary told me Tanner was right behind me starting the second lap. That’s who ! was fighting with. He was long gone by the time ! got to T1.
The roads were the same as before only longer and dry. 11 miles longer and still ! went faster. 6 tenths of a mph faster avg. My toe was hurting by the end of the ride.
10k is twice as far as 5k. That’s what the calculator says. ! decided ! should have more cushion in the shoes so ! wore the trainers instead of the racing flats. They made both feet hurt and ! got a blister. ! ran ½ a mile then was walking. ! tried to run but it just hurt like hell. This while ! was juiced up on Tylenol. For awhile ! was traveling w/ girl 111. She said it was like running w/ Will Farrell. Hollywood lawyers are preparing to sue her as you read this. She was cute though. Hairless Bob ran by and showed her his chest. ! averted my eyes and reminded him that ! was still 4 minutes ahead of him. He ran on undaunted.
The last aid station before the turn-around had bandaids. It took 2 to cover the blister and it still hurt too. Ha. All 3 forms of to, 2, too in one sentence. A homonym home run. Actually it felt a little better. ! ran past girl 111 and kept going. Maybe ! should ditch those shoes. On the way back ! was running more than walking and going faster. Negative split. Jeff Carroll passed me. Damn him. Finally the end was near. ! didn’t think ! had a sprint in me. My sprint is everyone else’s marathon pace. ! did do the last 100 yards faster though.
Yesterday my run was an 8 minute pace. Probably 7:30 on the way out. Today ! was down to 10:54. Out of 142 guys only 22 ran slower. And not by much. None of those 22 beat me overall. The slowest ahead of me was nearly 1 min/mi faster and there were the only two over an hour on the run ahead. That means ! got 3rd place…of everyone who couldn’t do a 10k under an hour. ! rock!!!!!
Just like yesterday, Jim gave out weapons to a lot of RMTC kids. Tanner placed in his age group as well as winning Clydesdales by nearly 18 minutes.
Tanner, Sybil, Mini Megan, Joni and the mysterious Steve Perkins all showed up to do just this one. ! think this is the only race Steve’s done this year.
Mary, the Aussie (Oy Oy Oy), rounded up all the girls in the vicinity and made me turn around so they could laugh about my team shorts thinning. !’m not buying it for a second, butt ! can’t see behind me.
Into the same puddle we swam in yesterday. Today it was teeth-chattering cold. Steve was warming up by staying out of the water @ least until Tanner waded in. Those Clydesdales really raise the water level. Jim’s just mean. The sadistic 2-race weekend and then having Tanner start less than 2 minutes behind me for the 2 lap swim. Our ambassador to Hungary told me Tanner was right behind me starting the second lap. That’s who ! was fighting with. He was long gone by the time ! got to T1.
The roads were the same as before only longer and dry. 11 miles longer and still ! went faster. 6 tenths of a mph faster avg. My toe was hurting by the end of the ride.
10k is twice as far as 5k. That’s what the calculator says. ! decided ! should have more cushion in the shoes so ! wore the trainers instead of the racing flats. They made both feet hurt and ! got a blister. ! ran ½ a mile then was walking. ! tried to run but it just hurt like hell. This while ! was juiced up on Tylenol. For awhile ! was traveling w/ girl 111. She said it was like running w/ Will Farrell. Hollywood lawyers are preparing to sue her as you read this. She was cute though. Hairless Bob ran by and showed her his chest. ! averted my eyes and reminded him that ! was still 4 minutes ahead of him. He ran on undaunted.
The last aid station before the turn-around had bandaids. It took 2 to cover the blister and it still hurt too. Ha. All 3 forms of to, 2, too in one sentence. A homonym home run. Actually it felt a little better. ! ran past girl 111 and kept going. Maybe ! should ditch those shoes. On the way back ! was running more than walking and going faster. Negative split. Jeff Carroll passed me. Damn him. Finally the end was near. ! didn’t think ! had a sprint in me. My sprint is everyone else’s marathon pace. ! did do the last 100 yards faster though.
Yesterday my run was an 8 minute pace. Probably 7:30 on the way out. Today ! was down to 10:54. Out of 142 guys only 22 ran slower. And not by much. None of those 22 beat me overall. The slowest ahead of me was nearly 1 min/mi faster and there were the only two over an hour on the run ahead. That means ! got 3rd place…of everyone who couldn’t do a 10k under an hour. ! rock!!!!!
Just like yesterday, Jim gave out weapons to a lot of RMTC kids. Tanner placed in his age group as well as winning Clydesdales by nearly 18 minutes.
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