On Sunday, I got out for a run on the sand with a couple of hundred other people in the Ocean Beach 5K.
As you can see from the results (click on the 5K by Time tab at the very bottom), I did well among the 76 people who chose this distance. But it wasn’t a fast time (21:05). I’ll blame it on the sand, the inexact measurement, and (ahem) my lack of fitness.
Oh well. I was just glad to see all the fast people keep going at the 5K turnaround… the 6 mile event was more competitive. Running on the beach, even at extreme low tide, doesn’t inspire me…and it’s hard to judge distances visually.
I’ll have to run the two other races in the series and see if I can earn a cash prize. Hah!
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1 clock — watching time, the only true currency » » Racing on Turkey Day // Nov 26, 2006 at 7:31 am
[...] On Thanksgiving morning, I started by being thankful that Golden Gate Park is home to so many road races, including the 2006 Run for the Hungry. I entered both the mile, run at 8am, and the 5K, run 30 minutes later. I am running the Academy of Sciences race later this morning, again doing the 5K distance, but I felt compelled to enter the Thanksgiving Day races because tucking into a lot of food later in the day feels more acceptable somehow after racing and because this race is the next in the series I ran in earlier this year. [...]
2 clock — watching time, the only true currency » » Exercise, 2007-Jan-01 // Jan 1, 2007 at 7:44 pm
[...] December) turned into a cash prize! Archived in Everything, Running, Exercise | Trackback | del.icio.us | Top OfPage [...]
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