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This was a beautiful 5 mile course that started
along the Atlantic Ocean, went through the surrounding
neighborhoods, past 2 lakes, and finished back along the ocean.
John & I arrived at around 7:15am for an 8:30am
start, parked & walked the few blocks to the start/finish area. We
walked around & did some stretching. By 7:45am the lines for the
port-o-potties was getting very long & there really wasn’t very many
of them, so we figured we had better get on line. We ended up being
on line for almost 30 minutes so I guess it was good we lined up
when we did. Now it was time to line up for the race start. John & I
had decided to run our own races, so we wished each other luck and
we were off. It was a very cool start line. They have a Fire
Department Ladder Truck on a side street backed up to the main road
with the ladder extended across the street. For the start you ran
under the ladder. As I crossed under the ladder I wondered if that
was bad luck. Hmmm??? It took us over 2 minutes to cross the start
line and it was already a very hot 75 degrees. The first 5 minutes I
did a lot of weaving between people. I followed a man that was
larger then me who was running a nice easy pace. As he would create
a hole through the crowd, I followed him through it. I looked at my
garmin seeing that 5 minutes had gone by without any walking breaks,
so I figured I had better take one, knowing my body would never make
it at the pace I was going (especially with how hot it was). So, I
ended up settling into Run 4 / Walk 1 intervals for the first 3
miles before the heat was really starting to get to me. At that
point I switched to Run 2-3 / Walk 2-3. I have been training the
last couple of weeks to do R3/W2 intervals, so I was happy to see I
basically could maintain that, at least for a little while anyway.
There were fire trucks every mile or so spraying water on racers & I
was very grateful to the homeowners that also had sprinklers or
hoses spraying to help us cool off too. It was also nice to have a
few homeowners playing music for us along the way, especially the
boy that was playing his bass drum to help entertain us. So now I
make the last turn and am back along the ocean with the finish less
then a half mile ahead. I ran into the finish feeling very hot, but
very strong. Went through the shoot, received my medal and went
straight to the post race water & food. By the time I made my way
back, John was leaving the shoot. He got his medal and we had a
photo taken of us together in front of an American Flag. It was a
great race & it will be on my list to run again next year.
Here’s the numbers:
Karen Clock Time - 1:04:15 Finished
2556 out of 3414 women
Garmin
- 5.08miles 1:01:40 12:08mpm
Mile 1 - 11:40 Mile 2 - 12:04 Mile 3
- 12:20
Mile 4 - 12:31 Mile 5 - 12:33
John Clock Time - 1:13:39 Finished 4049
out of 4228 men
Garmin
- 5.08miles 1:11:15 14:02mpm
Mile 1 - 11:42 Mile 2 - 12:29 Mile
3 - 15:15 Mile 4 - 16:07 Mile 5 - 14:49
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