mayday variety run hip got sore again

1:28:44
Not too bad considering at mile 3 I almost quit and went home. I am glad I battled through it, the rest of the run was much better. I developed a sore throat last night and still don't feel great. I wonder if we will ever get rid of this illness completely that has been hanging around here the last month? Ugh.

Go Jeff and Billy!

Brian (Stover) has been on email back and forth with me giving me updates. I feel so totally and completely spoiled.

It was a beautiful day for it, especially compared to last year.

I went out too fast and had to overcome some weak moments on the way back. But I'm satisfied in the end, because I gave it a good effort and lost only a couple of net places after the turnaround, both to high schoolers who outkicked me right at the end despite my best efforts not to get passed. I also shadowed the first-place woman (don't know who it was), who looked like she was fading a couple of times but kept rallying and finished a few places ahead with an excellent time.

I don't know my place or official time yet, but my watch time of 17:42 is a CR by 57 seconds and a nice way to finish the season. There were lots of Eden folks there to make this the great social event it always is, including Ginger, Shannon and Adria and Zoe, Brian, Judson, Judy, Don and Jean, Diane and RJ, RK, Michelle, Tom, Peter K., Jeff and Mary Alice . . . and apologies to anyone I'm forgetting!

I agree, close to perfect weather.

I was happy with today's results. 22:41/7:34 pace. I felt comfortable, even going up the hill at the turn around. Things got pretty intense the last .50 mile, especially the last quarter. Exactly how I wanted to feel. If I had gone out faster I probably would have really crashed in the end, running even slower. Course PR by 18 sec. I don't count last year, horrid conditions- almost 2 min. faster this year. If it had been a 5k I still wouldn't have broken my 23 min. goal. Pretty far off actually, 38 sec. or so. Something to shoot for next time, I'm thinking Flattop!

Great job all! Nice work Suzanne on a doozy of a course. Awesome job beating your Y 5k time. See ya at the track on Tuesday!

That's great, Shannon! I hope the award had something to do with running 22:14 while pushing a 100 lb jogger! That's pretty amazing.

Results are up on the Sub5 website.

from the results 66th was me

figure 8 from the visitors center, Paradise Hill first, with an extra PH lap at the end. I'm calling that an even 7 miles but I may be cheating a little. 57:59.

I enjoyed my run today. I concentrated on my breathing, and my legs weren't tired. My cross-training may actually be having an effect. 26:26 (8:49 pace ). I'm happy to have finished easily and not feeling like I was overextending.

And I can't think of anyone else I'd rather see win the Cash Turkey than Shannon! Sounds like a great day for Eden!

I finally broke under 7 min pace (6:59 - 20:57) probably because I battled it out with the two County girls (Angie and Linda). Mary Parson won my division with a very strong race. It was a great day. Congats to all that ran.

PMS will be stopping by tomorrow to interview you as to how my name/ place was omitted from today's results
he believes that you may be the only person who had any interest in making sure i did not finish ahead of you in the results
and he heard all the threats you made about your race plans all week long.
( I tried to reason with him but you know how those "cop" types are once they get on a hot lead )
so sleep well and come/up with a good story for the interview

we maybe doing a 5k in Rockport on Sat. if you want to go it starts at 9am and is $15 bucks we are checking the weather first

I couldn't carry 4 Turkeys so I gave one to Tom.

Mark and Peter's turkeys are in my freezer whenever they want them.

That six cents I put on Shannon, Zoe, and Adria turned out to be a very good investment.

Bought a feast at the Orono Student Union after Nora's concert.