Damian Stretching Beforehand. Russ...Not So Much.
Russ Getting Ready to Run
Here we are at the starting line...ready to run. We're not too far from the front of the pack.
Then a "cute" little boy decides to cross from my right to my left...not bothering to notice that there was a grown-up there who outweighed him 6-to-1 ! So while I'm trying to not fall down and not kill the tyke if I do....number 155 (you can see him to my left) decides to cross from my left to my right...so I nearly take HIM out as well!
Aren't they just darling!?
After that, things got sorted out pretty quickly. I happily passed the Napoleon Dynamite look-alike around mile #2 and then chugged on to the finish line.
Finish Line Sprint. Garry is the Photographer-in-Charge!
Russ came in some time later...
Final results were:
- 280 runners (more or less)
- Damian
- 12th place overall
- 1st in men of my age group
- 1st overall in age group
- Time was 20:49 --- a new record! Previous best was 21:26 !!
- Russ
- 108th overall
- 16th in age group
- Time was 30:24 -- which isn't bad for a guy with two vertebrae fused together!
Last Sunday I did the Red Devils Run at Goucher College. I didn't post it because I wanted to wait until after Mathew's Gamers'-Wake. But here's those stats:
- 450 runners
- Time was 21:37 (a bit slow, but there was a surprise hill!)
- 1st in men of my age group
- 1st in my age group
- SECOND PLACE OVERALL !!
