As you probably already know, I ran in the Hospital Hill 10k race on June 4th. Setting out, I had two three goals for myself: 0) Finish the race; 1) Finish in 1:30:00 or less; and 2) Finish in 1:20:00 or less.
I am happy to say that my official time was 1:20:36. However, I am going to say that I met all of my goals, because the actual distance of the race was 6.3 miles (10k = 6.2 miles). As I watched my GPS toward the end, I crossed the 6.2mi mark at 1:19:40 (ish), a few seconds ahead of my goal!
So yeah… I’m awesome like that.
Though I have to admit, it’s demoralizing to be passed by a bunch of half-marathoners who finish running 13.1 miles 20 minutes before you finish running 6.2. I realize they have been doing this a lot longer, but holy crap!
Here are the pictures taken of me at the race:
Google Photo album for Hospital Hill ‘11
A quick note about the pictures: I do not own the copyright on them (in case the big watermark wasn’t obvious). However, I am perfectly fine with the low-res copies of these images considering the price the company wants for high-resolution copies (if I recall, it would have cost me several hundred dollars to get my images).
So yeah… good race, bad hills (seriously… wtf? it wasn’t called “Hospital Hills“… why more than one big hill?), decent pics, and great results. Overall, I’m calling it a win.