The forecast was miserable but the morning was delightful! The sun was shining, the weather was warm, a little hot even, and it stayed that way long past the finish line.
Tom and Krissy came out around 8am and we began the trek down to Carson Beach to check in where we met Lauren. On the way down we sadly had to pass a body that showed up on the beach ( no im not kidding), luckily covered by a sheet but now Tom and Krissy want me to move haha. Once we passed that sadness we got over to the Carson Beach House and checked in and got really awesome T-shirts!
The crowd was a thousand or so strong and was graced with a trio of the funnest guys around. They call themselves the Mullet Marathon (New England Chapter) and they are quite possibly the raddest dudes around. Like them on facebook, cuz they rock, high five! http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/mulletmarathonnewengland?sk=wall
We took a minute to get photographed with Hank, Kenny and Bobby in all their mullety glorious-ness. Tommy even crossed the finished line around the same time as them just so he could possibly end up in race photos with them haha.
Drill Seargant something or other came out and gave us a military style warm up replete with ungodly amounts of pushups and stretches which actaully was a nice way to start the run. Then after some remarks about the awesome cause we were there to support they started the lineup with 6 minute runners (aka over-achievers), 7 min runners, 8 min runners, 9 min runners and then stopped after that basically implying slow f*&%s to the rear of the crowd which is of course exactly where I planted myself.
The run itself was a nice, flat course along Day Blvd tracing the water. We flipped it around at Farragut and ran back the same way. It was HOT by the time we made the turn. I raced a young boy of 12/13 years of age to the finish line (he beat me) and beat last month's time with a 33:06 finish. Not even close to touching my best time of just over 31 at the St. Patty's 5K but better than my April finish by some seconds.
After the race we headed back to 8 Emmet and took some photo ops on the deck before hitting Stats for lunch.
All in all a great race day! Thanks for bringing the sunshine Bumpa!
Since May is official ALS month I decided to run 2 races this month and so in 2 weeks I will be doing the Harpoon 5 Miler in the Seaport area of South Boston. And until then will be attempting to train my rear off as best I can with shin splints.
Dont forget to donate to the Richard W. Hudson Memorial Fund to benefit the ALS Association of MA today or any day this month.
Thanks to my generous friends and family I broke the $1,000 mark this month, leaving me $3,775 to go to reach my goal so please donate what you can to help me reach $5,000 and support the sufferers of ALS.
And thank you to the following awesome people who have donated since February/March:
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Boucher
Sheryl Dooley
Lauren Williams (my race buddy)
Lundy Carre
A-Bakes (thank you for your recurring donations rooms!)
Christian Panasuk
Kelly Clifton
Mary Jo & David Cotrell
and my amazingly wonderful, awesomest on planet earth Gramma Hudson
Thanks for reading and check back end of next week for the 5 Miler playlist which will need to be long and awesome to keep me motivated to complete 2 miles more than I am used to.
And tomorrow is Miss Emily (Hudson) Pattee's 32nd Birthday so do me a favor and wish her a good one, she's an amazing mommy to my 2 little nephews and she deserves love from the masses.
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