Today, I ran the The Great Race with fellow Y! Bootcamper Tom and our Bootcamp instructor Russ. Of course, to say we ran it “with” Russ would imply Tom and I are much faster than we are. Regardless, Tom and I lined up for the race in the 8 minute mile section in an attempt to get out ahead of the traffic jam, but actually ended up holding a 8-9 min mile pace for the whole run. I ended up with an official time of 34:22, although I definitely crossed the starting line at least 23 seconds after the start of the race (and more like a minute or so), so I broke 8:30/mile and did well enough to finish 475 overall, and 37 in my age group out of the approximately 3,000 entrants. I lost Tom around the 3 mile mark, but he finished only a minute or so behind me. A great showing for his first timed race and his first ever run of that length!

Next up is The Relay in a few weeks, and then there may not be another race until Wharf To Wharf in July. Who wants to run that one with me? It’s a really fun 6 mile race from Santa Cruz to Capitola.

All this talk of exercise is making me sleepy.

This entry was posted on Sunday, April 15th, 2007 at 9:48 pm and is filed under Diet/Exercise. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

tagged bootcamp, capitola, los gatos, russ, santa cruz, saratoga, the great race, the relay, tom and wharf to wharf