Packet pickup day is always fun. A mixture of excitement and trepidation as the race is almost there.
I picked up my packet for the St. Timothy’s Sprint Sprint 5K yesterday for the race Saturday morning. It’s a smallish local race for a good cause. I’m hoping to set a PR tomorrow — which would be anything under 23:42 — but I don’t know how challenging the course is. It’s likely at least moderately rolling given it’s in the center of Raleigh so I might be out of luck. Being such a small race it’s not out of the realm of possibility for me to actually place in the top 3 of my age group. Depends on who shows up and how good of a run I have. Frankly it would have to be a stellar effort above my plan for me to accomplish that given last year’s results, but it’s still possible! Here’s last year’s results:
MALE AGE GROUP: 35 - 39
Place Bib Name Ag City St Time Pace
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1 189 JERRY WILLIAMSON 35 RALEIGH NC 21:27 6:54
2 214 COLIN MULDOON 36 RALEIGH NC 21:55 7:04
3 5 CHRISTOPHER BARNHART 36 RALEIGH NC 22:15 7:10
4 125 ZACH SLOANE 35 RALEIGH NC 22:40 7:18
5 148 LEX HARRIS 38 RALEIGH NC 23:21 7:31
Damn it! So close to my target pace. Look at the previous year!
MALE AGE GROUP: 35 - 39
Place Bib Name Ag City St Time Pace
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1 179 RODRICK JONES 37 CARY NC 20:43 6:41
2 251 MATTHEW POWERS 37 RALEIGH NC 23:13 7:29
3 545 JOE NUSS 38 RALEIGH NC 23:34 7:35
So I’ll just have to run as best I can and see what happens. Channel my inner Kenyan.
Speaking of Kenyans
I decided to get a new shirt to run in to try to show some support for my mom given what’s going on. For the front I went with something a bit shorter and less self-serving and to the point. I assume that the crowds for my next several races will be smaller, so I went with (hopefully) funny.
I never see them
It’s a bit odd that I had just talked about how long I would continue to leave the “running in honor of my father” on the back of my shirt. I had answered “until there’s someone else that should be there.” With my mother battling cancer, it seemed like the right time.
I always fool them
The “steroids” thing was one of 4 things I came up with and tried out. When I asked Cat which one I should do, that was the only one that made her laugh out loud so obviously I had to go there. We’ll see if it works tomorrow.
