HT Murray

This is just a quick report, because I'm tired, and I'm going to take a nap before I write up a full report. But here it is:

I ran 10k, which is 6.2 miles. My tier of goal were as follows:

Goal 1) Run the entire race.
Accomplished. I did walk about fifty feet at each water stop just to keep the water from sloshing all over, but that's to be expected, and I don't think it affected my overall time very much.

Goal 2) Come in at around 1hour 10mins. (About an 11min/mile pace) I've mostly been training at around 12:00min/mile, and only within the last month have I stepped it up. I thought I might could run a 10:00 pace for the course, but I had no idea what the course was like or what race nerves would do to me, so I aimed for around 11:00min/mile. And no, that's not fast. LOL.

Goal 3) If it turned out I felt like I could run faster, I'd like to come in under 1h 5 mins.

Goal 4) Pie in the sky, if they spike the water with metachlorians and I run the race on Jedi mind power alone, come in under 1hour. (Still not fast. The fastest male came in at 37minutes! Fastest woman was something like 42minutes.)

My time: 1hour, 02 minutes, 40 seconds.

So, Yay!

I also won a door prize. Since it was a run through the vineyard at the Mesina Hof Winery, I got a bottle of sparkling grape juice. LOL. Actually, some other dude won it, but he already left, so they re-drew. Go me!

Full report with pictures to come...