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I've been in Atlanta all week
doing the Grandparent duties of tending to my 8 year old
granddaughter while her parents are in Chicago. The
weather has not been that great the past few days, but
in general I've been able to keep up with my running.
This morning I ran in a 5K called
Virginia Highlands. There were about 600 runners and
I finished 75th out of about 250-300 women. Benji Durden
who is a very good Atlanta area runner had told me that
the course would be hilly and in my opinion, that was an
understatement. The course started with a downhill, then
went up and down several times until just after mile 2
when we had a hill that was so steep that I almost gave
in and walked it. But, I struggled through to the top
and then we did some more ups and downs with a downhill
finish. My time of 28:14 was certainly slower than my
5k of two weeks ago when I ran 26:48. But, considering
the toughness of the hills and my lack of sleep this
week, I was pleased that I won the 60-64 AG and got a
nice plaque and sweatshirt ( in addition to a
nice LS shirt that all registrants got.)
National Masters and World Masters
record holder, Jeanne Daprano who is 69 and lives in the
Atlanta area. That *has* to be the reason that she
kicked my butt as she ran 26:40 for the 5K distance. She
and I did our cooldown together and she then gave me her
email, etc and I'll probably try to run with
her sometime when I'm back in Atlanta. Maybe some of her
speed will rub off on me.
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