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Ft Bragg Family Fun Run

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Location:

Hope Mills,NC,USA

Member Since:

May 12, 2009

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

78.6 miles at Hinson Lake 24 hour ultra 2013

Short-Term Running Goals:

Mike to Mike Marathon- May 2014

Hinson Lake 24 hour ultra -Fall 2014

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run till the day I die and still enjoy it

Comrades---long, long, long term

Personal:

Married

2 children

2 chickens

cat

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Mizuno Lifetime Miles: 508.40
NB Trail Lifetime Miles: 94.40
New-zuno 9's Lifetime Miles: 515.83
Pinky Gladys Gutzman Lifetime Miles: 502.11
Brooks Lifetime Miles: 517.83
New Brooks Lifetime Miles: 507.28
New Minuno Pink Lifetime Miles: 519.24
MiZuni FLAMES Lifetime Miles: 470.24
Merrell Vibrams Lifetime Miles: 20.86
Mizuno Alchemy 8 Lifetime Miles: 586.59
MIzuno Alchemy 12 Lifetime Miles: 497.80
Brooks 13 Lifetime Miles: 577.62
Brooks 12 Lifetime Miles: 410.66
Brooks 13 New Green Lifetime Miles: 440.91
Brooks 13 New Blue Lifetime Miles: 445.67
Green Machine Brooks 13 Lifetime Miles: 560.25
Shiny Blue Asics Lifetime Miles: 164.85
Dreamy New Balance Lifetime Miles: 402.57
Race: Ft Bragg Family Fun Run (3.1 Miles) 00:24:00
Total Distance
3.25

Free races are the best thing ever!  This one had no registration, no chips, no bibs- just a start, end, and a clock to keep time.  Lots of people with dogs, strollers, or both, lots of kids, some scooters and bikes....just a good time.

Being on the base, there was definitely some good competition.  I found myself pre-judging every runner I saw trying to figure out if they were going to be super fast or not.  It's a little game that I'm not very good at.  You just can't judge a runner by what they're wearing or what size they are.

It took us a few seconds I'm saying it was around 5 to get to the start.  It was downhill for the first half, then right back uphill for the second half.  Uphills in the end are tough for me!  I wasn't warmed up enough to take full advantage of the great downhill at the start either.  I thought it was cold, despite the people wearing t-shirts and shorts!

As I was approaching the turn around, I could see the leaders running back.  I started looking for women... it took a while to see the first one.  She looked like an athlete!  I gave her a nod- she was doing great!  I counted 8 other females in front of me, and one girl on a scooter who had rolled all the way downhill.  I ended up passing 3 of the females on the hill back up, then we had 1 lap on the track to finish the run.  There was a lady in front of me that had a 10 miler shirt on who had passed me early in the race, and a girl right behind her.  My initial goal was to pass the girl behind her, but she took off like a rocket after 1/4 of the lap... so I worked on overtaking the 10 miler lady.  She was running with her husband, who was pushing a stroller.  He was on the inside lane, and she was in the 2nd lane.  I had to sprint out and around both of them, but I did it just before the last turn and beat her!  Not that I had anything against her, I just wanted to get in front of someone, and she was the one.  So I think I passed 4 females total, which would have put me at 4 or 5, but I have no way of confirming this.  It just doesn't matter.  My time was better than any of my other 5K times, so I won the competition with myself, and that's what really pleases me.

I was sure that last mile+ that was all uphill was going to put me over an 8mm, but it didn't.  I was really happy I could keep my pace fairly constant even with the hill.  I have my splits for the first 3 miles, but not the last .1 because even though I pushed my watch, and I swear I heard it beep, it never stopped.  Go figure.  All splits were in the 7:50s, and I ran faster that last little bit trying to overtake the other lady.  Good stuff all together.  The clock said 24:04 when I went under it, but I know it was at least 4 or 5 seconds for me to get to the start, so I'm giving myself a 24:00.

Good SWAG after: chickfila mini sliders, free coupons, fruit, granola bars, raffles, t-shirts for the first 100 finishers, thumb drives, water bottles & canisters, WWE people to sign & get autographs from (but I don't know who they are and care even less, so I didn't bother), bags, blankets, and lots of little things.  We also got free santa hats to run in:

And just for Brent, I'll end with the slogan that was printed on our t-shirts:

GO ARMY  -  BEAT NAVY!!

MiZuni FLAMES Miles: 3.25
Comments
From Brent on Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 15:15:03 from 168.178.30.219

QP, Go Navy, beat Army - Hum, I must have mentioned I was a CPO. 300 commando points for the PR. I like how you were chasing down the women in front of you, makes races fun, great work. Under 8 min. miles, you are getting faster and faster.

Stay Kool, B of BS Rool sout - did I mention Go Navy, beat Army

From RAD on Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 16:58:41 from 98.202.23.178

Awesome race!!! SO proud of your effort to stick with it despite hills and cold. Plus, top rankings again. Maybe I shouldn't come to one of these races, you'll probably beat ME! :)

From Chad on Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 17:49:47 from 71.199.13.143

Nice job! This one sounds better than your last one. Way to run down that other runner. Sweet. And a free race with some great free stuff? Awesome.

From Burt on Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 07:29:04 from 174.254.9.177

Very nice Pirate. So, women give each other the nod?

From Terri on Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 09:34:15 from 72.66.72.85

Great race! I could just see you flying like the wind past those other runners! Amazing pace!

From Smooth on Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 10:56:55 from 174.27.205.151

Wow! AWESOME race!!! :) You are running so FAST!!! WAY to compete and finish with uphill to boot so strong and in top ranking!!! Very very very nice performance, QP!!! No entry fee plus lots of freebies sounds like a perfect event! :)

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