Scotland 10K is a fantastic, speedy race because we go clock-wise in Central Park. You clear the annoying West Side bumps while you still got juice in your legs, power through the gentler incline on the Harlem Hills East, then it’s mostly flat. From there you sprint down Cat Hill, slide down east side of the lower loop and kick up the “annoying Tavern on the Green Hill” to the goal. With front-loaded hills and big declines on the tail end, Scotland 10K is a fun course to really test your legs!
It was also our first team race, so I was eagerly waiting for our results Saturday. Then came the e-mail.
Our Fearless Leader sent out a copy of the results page, and lo and behold, I see something insane.
Net Time 39:00
Wha….?! What happened here?! Who is this Addis? I can’t even pronounce his last name! I think I may have joined the wrong team! I thought we were bunch of social runners…who knew we were high level running group. Blue Bib or not, I’m terrified…! What did I get myself into?
Well, all kidding aside, we had a fantastic first official race as a team! Our 18 & under segment, headed by Mr. Wolderhawariat (yo, we need to give him a truncated nickname in the fashion of “Meb” or “Ritz”) did incredibly well. Ms. “I’m racing back into shape” Kathy cracking the 10th place in her age group. Ms. “I didn’t really race this one” Maria also came in at a respectable 20th, placing her above 70th percentile mark. Most importantly, she beat her old “boss” by 14 seconds. Did she show them or what?!
As a team, we popped up on Team Ranking section in various places on the Awards section. Yea, that’s right, we are actually famous!!! Weeeeeee!
Tom was second fastest of the men in our team, beating out the Maharaja. Tom had a PR Race, AGAIN. He’s getting faster every race for some reason. What’s his secret? If he keeps this up, in a few more races, he’s going to earn him self a truncated nick name too! Like…”T”...which would make him....Mr. T. Ha!
But dear Mr. T, beating Mr. Maharaja will not be good. If we piss our overlord too much, we won’t get good deals on our singlets… Running is a pricey sport. We need all the discounts we can get!!
We did incredibly well, and Ms. Maria sent me this ominous e-mail:
We have an 18-years old member now! Alem will bring two more, according to Chris. Man, we are going to be good!
So Central Park, are you ready for some AODF?!
We’re going to have an army of 18 & Unders kicking your butt!!!!
+Chris's Leg is ready to kick butt+
We refer to Mr. Wolderhawaria as Addidas. He placed 3rd in his age-group.
ReplyDeleteWe really have a great team!!!! More importantly, my legs are naturally smooth.