The women of Agony brought full force to Women’s Mini10K this weekend. 11 of us ran the race, and Hirut came in third in her age group! Followed by 3 of us (Kathy, Louise and me) having the exact same time! It’s strange that we’re not all tied…I guess they rank the place by gun time?
This was the 40th Anniversary of Mini10K. Which means, 40 years ago, women weren’t allowed to race a road race or something. That’s just 1972! It’s hard to imagine what women did back then for sports. Synchronized Swimming? Hoola hoops?
Now for the race recap.
It’s hard to recap a 10K because it’s so short and I’m concentrating so hard that I don’t really “take notes” like usually do for longer distances. I’m not a short distance runner, so it takes everything in me to push hard.
When the gun went off, I wished Kathy a good race and took off. I know speeding away at the sound of the gun is super dumb thing to do. But I decided that for Mini10K, my strategy is going to be to cut much time as I can during the first half 2 miles, where it’s flat or downhill. OH, DON’T ASK ME WHY. I KNOW IT’S LAME STRATEGY. So I’m speeding at sub-7 minute mile, when I suddenly see something on the ground. It takes about 2 seconds for me to register what it is. It’s a smooshed dead rat carcass. WAAAAAAAAAA I can’t avoid it, I can’t stop, I can’t change course by the time I figure out what it is! SQUISH. I step on it and I’m about to cry.
Another thing I noticed is that when you’re in the blue corral, you don’t see much silly outfits. People are all PROS here…with the exception of two tootoos. There’s a rainbow one, which Lisa noticed and declared war, and a pink one, which I noticed and declared war. Unfortunately, the pink one was worn by a CPTC person, so I lost that war easily. But Lisa won her battle against the rainbow tootoo! GO LISA!
Was it me, or was the race generally slower this year? I lost concentration some where after Coach Alem’s hut and noticeably slowed down. I only picked it back up when I saw the “Sun Woman” again…
Who is Sun Woman? It's this lady in a pair of funny looking shorts I noticed at the start of the race. The shorts had a big yellow sun (?) motif on her bum area. She was all in red except for this giant yellow circle. She was with me during the first few miles then I lost her at around mile 3 or so. All the while she was running around me, I kept on thinking how wired it looked. When she reappeared a little before Cat Hill I was bat-sh!t angry about it. I think it was because it started to look like this at that point. I made it a point to pass her. But as I goaled in, I immediately felt bad because she tapped by shoulder and asked me if I was OK (I sprinted last 400m, and was completely breathless). NOTE: People in strange outfits can be nice people.
Post-race, NYRR decided to give out POPSICLES this year. I hope this doesn’t mean we’ve used up our annual allotment of free popsicles because Pride Run without popsicles would suck.
Next up is the dudes’ Portugal Race. I hear Xena is getting her sexy on to cheer. Although for some members, I believe Hercules is preferred over Xena. But I guess it's the thought counts.
You Ladies make me proud!!!
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