Well I’m done.  By the times below from the web site, I only cut 25 minutes from last fall.
This doesn’t take into count the long wait for a porto potty or the about 10 minutes I had to take to stretch out my calf at about mile 10.  I pulled my hip early on and then over compensating for that got a cramp in the calf of my other leg.  It could have something to do with mild dehydration also.

The morning was tough.  Up at 4 a.m. and ate my cereal and soy milk way to early in the day to eat anything.  Got down town and parked about 5 a.m.  Walked about a mile back to the shuttle pick up and stood in the cool morning and waited for the shuttles and then waited at the other end for over an hour for the race to start and another 37 minutes before I was able to go.

I was pretty stiff and cold by that point.  Couldn’t really walk to warm back up because I was in the middle of a pack that were running.  I started out to fast and got tired pretty quick.  At about mile 2 I was running down a hill and thats were I pulled my hip.

But I kept going.  I finished.  Here are my times:

• Splits:       5 Km      10 Km      9 Mile     Finish

• Times:     49:02     1:46:41    2:38:57    3:57:22

• Pace:        15:47        17:11      17:40       18:07

I didn’t do as well as I had planned, or even as well as I had hoped.  But I shaved time off from the last one and I did.  I finished it.  I may do the one in November again, but I am not signing up right now.  Since Char, Leslie and I decided to do the one last year I have been signed up for a marathon for a year and a half except the five weeks after finishing that one and signing up for this one.