It’s been a while… In the time I have been neglecting my blog I have:
1. Taken a trip to Europe (Barcelona and Florence) and
2. Run in the 2008 Sun Run
I haven’t managed to get my photos from my Europe trip on Flickr yet so I’ll leave the trip report for a later post. Instead, today you get to hear about the much less interesting Sun Run.
This was my second year doing the run and I went into it with the goal of having a fun time and finishing in under an hour; With almost 60,000 people doing the race I knew I was definitely not going to get my best 10k time! Kate, Deb, and I started near the front of the “green” group (two other groups, the elite runners and the “yellow” group, started ahead of us). While we waited for our wave to start we grooved to music by Derek’s band, The Neurotics, who have been playing at the Sun Run start line for 15 years!
Our wave got off to a slow start. With such a large mob of people running at very varied paces I barely made the 2km mark in under 12 minutes. Yikes! Around the same time I began to wish I had taken advantage of one of the many porta-potties before the race had started. When we hit Beach Avenue, around the 3km mark, I decided to make a pit stop (they had porta-potties located at various points along the race route!) and lost a precious few minutes. I was going to have to work really hard to finish in under an hour.
Luckily I had the final 2/3 of the run to make up for my lost time and I pushed myself the whole way, stopping to walk for a few seconds at two water stations, but otherwise running the entirety of the time. It wasn’t until I passed the 9km mark and my watch read just over 54 minutes and I knew I would make it. The chip times haven’t been posted on the Sun Run website yet, but my time should be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 59:30. Just barely under one hour.
All in all, it was a fun run, and it reminded me that I need to get in shape for triathlon season! My next race (North Shore Sprint Tri) is in just under a month. Time to hit the pool to train.
I’ve always hated running, but as I sit up there on the band platform playing my drums for a couple of hours, I have to admire the 56,000+ people who go by and put in some *real* effort getting around the course. Air and I walked it some years ago (during a time I had quit the band for awhile, and also when the course was different, with more park and not crossing any bridges), and 10 km is a pretty long way.
Posted by Derek K. Miller | 25. Apr, 2008, 1:43 pmI think it’s awesome that you run… I just wish I was THAT dedicated
Posted by Raul | 28. Apr, 2008, 9:36 amI missed Dooce when she was here as well. Alas!
You been off to Europe again? You’re neglecting your blog again!!
Posted by erik | 25. May, 2008, 9:45 pm