The short Peachtree Race Report (cause I’m tired and don’t want to write more right now)
Karen and I started with time group 9, a whopping 1:15 after the official start. Not crossing the starting line until 8:45 a.m. meant that we didn’t finish until almost 10:00, which meant it was ALL KINDS OF HOT out there.
We rocked through the first 5K since it was mostly downhill — our splits were 11:37 (we had to walk for the first quarter mile just to let the crowd thin out), 10:17, and 10:46 (which is doubly impressive since we walked through the water station and still did a 10:46 mile — we were booking it downhill at that point).
Things got tougher during mile 4 with the infamous Cardiac Hill. Running in Houston just doesn’t prepare a girl for hills, and I had to walk a bit. We did that mile in 11:48.
During miles 5 and 6, Karen and I both began to have issues — I was starting to feel severly overheated and Karen’s knee was bothering her. We were far more liberal with the walk breaks and did miles 5 and 6 in 12:36 and 12:35.
We did the last 0.2 in 2:20 a finish time of 1:12:02, which, quite frankly, I was pretty happy with given the crowds and the weather. We both got the coveted t-shirt and chugged about a gallon of sports drink.
Jon’s probably already posted in on his blog, but I just looked and saw that Sean Wade took 1st in the Masters Men division. Cool! Way to represent Texans, Sean.
Annnnnnnd… the shuttle launched today! Woohoo! Go Discovery!
