We could not have asked for a better race evening last Thursday the 28th, what amazing weather. We started out by missing our 4:50pm boat by 4 minutes, luckily the staff did not care at all and since the boats were running so far behind schedule most people were not on the ferry they signed up for. So after a leisurely boat ride across the bay we landed at Long Island and were greeted by swarms of local campers cheering us on and thanking us for running and for raising money. It was really cute!
This was our view of the city skyline from the island:
The island itself is absolutely beautiful, I wish I could go to camp there! We heard tell of some people that came over on shuttles from Marina Bay that the route was extremely hilly but we ignore it and chalked it up to talk. Well friend, it was the hilliest course I have experienced thus far! No sooner had you come off the base of hill you were staring another one down. And the entire run back though not as up and down was a 1.5 mile gradual incline that made me wish for the up and down I had been clamoring about the 1.5 mile beforehand.
Here are some pre-race shots:
Lauren and I on arrival:
The huge lawn, there were 1200 runners:
Denis and Greg all ready to go:
Needless to say it was the toughest course I have done and I did not beat my last race time of 34:22, I came in at 35:04 which was shattered by Denis who came in at just over 22 minutes, show off. The course winner was a guy from Tufts who ran it in just over 15 minutes .... a 5 MINUTE MILE! He is bionic and I think he should have been disqualified for not being human.
After we all crossed the finish line there was a huge picnic style dinner setup with burgers and dogs, macaroni salad, potato salad, grilled corn on the cob and all kinds of yummy goodies. And to quench your thirst wonderful Sam Adams beer to go around. The 4 beer tickets each runner received when checking in was a great bonus to this race in addition to the awesome cause, beautiful location and delicious post race spread.
Some post race shots of us being lazy and enjoying some brews:
And as soon as the sun was going down the view became that much more amazing from where we sat. The skyline looked beautiful and reminded this non-city city girl why she loves to live here.
After the award ceremony for the bionic man from Tufts the 80's cover band Rubix Cube came on on the main stage. Now I am not a lover of 80's music and even I thought this band rocked. They dressed like crazy people and sang crazy 80's songs and I am currently attempting to get Denis and Ashley to agree to change their wedding band ... negotiations are ongoing.
After a little whip it we decided to head back to the dock and grab a ferry back to the mainland. It was an amazing race and I look forward to participating next year!
August is another 5 Miler month and since my 5K time this go round wasn't where I wanted it to be I have 3 weeks of solid training to commit to. My last 5 Miler time was 51:57:00 and so I'll be looking to get 51:56:00 or less to count it as a personal success. In theory this should be getting easier right???? So check back in the coming weeks for training updates, the week before the race I'll have the usual playlist post so you can steal my tunes. I'll also have some updates and info on the August 27th Boston Fundraiser as well as the announcement of the October 16th Worcester Fundraiser!
If you haven't lately or haven't yet; don't forget to visit the community fund page and make a donation! I've got 5 months to go and around $2600 left to raise so help me get there by December 31st, 2011 by making a donation today!
Thanks for reading!
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