Hallelujah! Race Report

I love running. How about you?
In fact I love running so much that I braved the Frozen Feat 2 years in a row!

The weather this year was much better than last year. It was about 17 degrees F ABOVE zero. Last year however, it was a mean of 1 degree. It definitely felt worse than that however with the northern wind whipping us around.

So, going into this race I had two goals. I have been training harder so I hoped to beat last years time but the week before the race I was out of commission so my second goal was to have no runner run twice as fast as me.

As it turned out we received quite a bit of snow the days before the race and despite the fact that there were over 200 runners, YAY!, packing down the snow in front of me, I was still sliding around even despite the spikes I was using. Speaking of spikes,

the spikes I were using were not mine. The came with the running shoes I BORROWED because I FORGOT mine at work. Doh. I was planning on running in a pair of merrells I use as work shoes when the night before I happened to run into a friend that happens to have size 11 feet like me. Praise Jesus. That's all I have to say.
Needless to say, in the snow, with new shoes, after not running for a week, I did not beat my time. I did however, win my race: my race against all the people behind me.
And I am delighted to find after crunching the numbers today, that I made my second goal! The fastest male's time was 18:07, and my time? (Although the officialness of this time is questionable since I did start in the back of the pack and at the end of the race they simply wrote down your name and number.) 36:04! Yes!

There is actually a picture of me on facebook if you would like to see me in full look like a ninja but am still slower than mud garb.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5186479&id=198636745922#!/photo.php?pid=5186671&id=198636745922&fbid=337119490922

Overall it was a great race that benefited the Special Olympics and they even had Special Olympians themselves handing out the finisher medals. Very short ones, but cool nonetheless.

For some reason, there is a picture of the guy who finished right before me, but not one of me. So, you'll have to settle for the take off shot.