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What a great week. Starting Sun. a
Biathlon and ending Sat. with a 5K in Pass Christian.
The 5k in the Pass was on our usual 5K course. The
weather was cause for alarm with lighting and rain. I
like a lot of other folks decided that since the weather
was threatening. not many would show up and thus giving
me a better chance to win a trophy. A trophy in this
case is a tree or bush of some sort. Which is a good
thing since my wife makes me take any hardware I
accumulate over a period of time out to a milk crate in
the storage shed. Bushes and trees I get to put in the
yard and admire every time I mow and weedeat around
them. The only thing is on my trophies and plaques I
write my time on the back or on the bottom. This is hard
to do on the root ball of a plant.
Anyway we lined up for the start
and Leonard warned us not to run over the Photo person
when we took off. As usual somebody didn't listen and I
heard the sound of a camera hitting the ground and heard
the scrambling of feet getting out of the way. The 1st
mile is slightly up hill and I had my friend Mike Denton
hanging on my shoulder pushing -pulling me along far
faster than I wonted to go. We seesawed back and forth
till we made the turn on the beach. He let me have the
lead on Scenic drive. I think he wonted me to take the
head wind thus tiring me out for the finish. I managed
to hold the lead and the 1st woman slipped in between
us. I also took great pains to make sure my Garmin
forerunner was all charged up for the race. It's a great
running accessory. It automatically logs mile splits and
tells you your pace and when you get home it will
download into your computer. It will even give you a map
of the course. All this will take place if you turn it
on and start it when the race starts. A half a mile from
the finish. I checked to see how I was doing and saw
that I had failed to start it. I did finish in 16th
place and like the rest of the participants will have to
wait till Leny post the results on the web site. After
the race the skies opened up and we were all told to
grab a bush and check the results on the web site. I did
manage to choke down some of Abita Springs water
and Toucans food and Gatorade.
© Bob
Clark
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