05.08.07
Get-In-Gear, Results
Due to popular demand here is my Get-In-Gear race report. I’ll keep is short, simple, and sweet.
Get in gear had great weather this year, quite possibly the best weather for this race ever. There was a slight wind, but nothing that was really detrimental to the race. Before the race antics included:
- me forgetting to wear my HR strap and watch on in spite of having brought them to the race.
- me forgetting that Franke wanted to put his
fanny pack
in with my stuff at bag check which caused him to have to wear it - Franke breaking the buckle on his
fanny pack
and having to tie it in a knot to wear it in the race. (wouldn’t want him to be without his juicy-juice)
We lined up in the chute WAY to late and ended up at the butt end of the world. The first two miles were spent dodging the various walkers/runners while trying to move up. It was a user problem, one of these days I’m going to have to get closer to the start line. (and perhaps warm up)
Without the watch and HR monitor to control the effort, I was just going to run hard and see what happened. I’m not really trained up this year, so I didn’t have high expectations. The race went about as expected through mile four or so, then I was stuck trying to decide if I should let off the gas or damn the torpedoes full speed ahead. I sort of wavered a bit between those two options for a while, then I found some motivation. Someone was complaining about how horrible their race was going, then they passed me and kept right on going. This happened far enough from the end that I was worried about having a meltdown in the finishing straight, but it was also right on the verge of where I should be winding it up anyway. So, I sucked it up and tried to keep horrible day
lady in sight.
I rolled across the finish line with a time that I knew was very close to my PR. It was a good race; I was happy with the result. Later I found out it was indeed a new PR by a few seconds. My 10K PR now stands at 43:19, down 18 seconds from last years result.
TJM said,
May 8, 2007 at 10:53 pm
As the lone requestor, I thank you for this from the bottom of my little heart. I felt like I was there, and laughed out loud (the idea of Franke running with a fanny pack on….Cool, Franke!) I sure miss you guys!