Happy Thanksgiving! RAD drove our little band of pirates up to the rec center early in the morning for the race. This was a hilly route! And even though it was an out and back, it felt like it was an all up hill route!! I'll be happy to get back to my flat roads soon! There sure were a lot of people at this run. I was glad they had timing mats at the start and end, because it took us 1:30 to get to the start mat. I'm not used to "racing" a race (I'm just usually along for the fun) but after a while I figured why not? What did I have to lose other than my dignity, pride, and ability to walk the next day? I guess around mile .5 I started seriously running. My garmin wasn't cooperating so I don't know the first .75 split, but after that, I felt like I did pretty good charging up the hills. I finished and RAD & JT were both already finished and waiting for me. We all walked back up the finish hill to run in again with the littlest buccaneer. She was almost finished! Very impressive for someone so young. I couldn't believe how many children were out there running. I've never seen youth like that at a race out where I live in Babylon. There certainly is something special about the youth of Zion :-) As we were approaching the finish line I had to stop and take a photo of the "turkey trotting." 
I'm just glad I finished before this guy! After the race I asked someone to take our pix, and bless his heart, he managed to switch it to video and I can't figure out how to post it to the blog. RAD has photos on her blog. After the race, they had raffle drawings for all kinds of goodies and they gave out ribbons for fastest runners and ag up to 5th place. I almost choked on my spit when I placed 5th in my ag. I guess all the ladies my age were home cooking dinner like a good wife/mother should be doing. I've never gotten a ribbon before and certainly not one for 5th place (who knew they even made ribbons that said 5th place?). So now I have a ribbon and a good story about a scary lady that kicked in the bathroom door while I was using it. Good times :-) overall pace was 8:21. My garmin said my pace for the last 2.35 miles was an 8:01. Slow start.
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