Last saturday, we headed back to Louisville for another race prep, the Rodes 10k. The temperature was a little chilly, but the conditions were good overall and we were all anxious to take another crack at some real race action. The course seemed fairly easy, lacking the many hills that we have encountered during our training back here in Lexington. There was a bit of controversy, though. My mom and two sisters were signed up to compete in the race, but didn’t make the trip because of the possibility of rain, so I picked up their packets to get their t-shirts. Unfortunately, when I got back to the car, I realized I had their chip timers as well, and if you don’t turn them back in, you get hit with a $30 fine. Well, I decided to just strap them all on, not thinking another thing about it until the race was over. I went out with the goal of running the race in 50 minutes, a nice 8 minute pace, but when the cannon went off, all plans went out the window. I felt good so I kept a pretty brisk pace and was happy that I had enough gas in the tank to finish strong with final time of 45:01. At that point, I realized I may have made a mistake with the chip timers. When the results were posted, it showed my mom winning her age division and my sisters finishing very high in theirs as well. I had my mom call in and I called myself and left a message with the race officials to let them know what had happen. Hopefully there are no hard feelings. For whatever reason, my sister Jackie’s chip was the only accurate time posted and mine didn’t post at all. Oh well. Two weeks and we have the 10 miler, but a 20 mile training run this weekend. That is a lot of miles . . .
March 18, 2008...6:40 am
3/15/2007 – Race 2
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