This is the 3rd time for me racing the largest
10k in the world (55k this year), every year we have lived in CO. I was just hoping to beat my time from the
year prior, but I had set the bar high with a high 36 last year. I was in the first wave with all the sub 38
folks. They start fast, very fast, there
were a lot of 4 minute low for the first mile this year, racing to the camera
truck. But many of them fell back fast
after that initial sprint. Every year I
race this 10k I feel like I am that ‘old dude’ racing with all these young
people, this year was no different. Either
way it’s a hard 10k, at over 5k’ altitude and a net uphill by the end. I kept the pace around 5’ 40’’ most of the
race and finished hard to beat my time last year by almost a minute and break
36 minutes just barley by one sec. This
year after the finish I had to jog back to the start a few miles away and meet
the girls and Shanon to do it again with them.
This ended up working very well, though it was tough to find them at the
start as they were a little late and got there just in time. I found them right after their wave started
and ran / walked with Riley, Corrie, and Shanon. There was something exciting for the girls to
do every ½ km or more through the race.
We found belly dancers, do a cartwheel make the spectators drink, hulla
hooping, slip-and-slide, many bands, free hugs and lots of other crazy Boulder type
costume watching. Christine and Owen
were one of them dressing up as a butterfly and net respectively, very clever I
thought. It took some coaching to get
the girls through the 10km but less than I expected and it was a hot day out as
well. The best part of the race was the
last 1/2 km running it with my girls racing each other and entering the stadium
to see 55k people cheering for them and giving high fives. They were both in such amazement it was great
to see. They sprinted to the line and
ended up 1 second apart. We spent a
while in the stadium for the memorial day festivities, which included watching
the pros finish, 8 paratroopers landing on the field, a fly over and general
remembering our brave men and women who sacrificed all to give us what we take for
granted day to day.
2012 – 36:57
2013 – 35:59.14
mile 1-5:34.68
- mile 2-5:43.82
- mile 3-5:59.48
- mile 4-5:56.99
- mile 5-5:43.15
- mile 6-5:48.20
- pace-05:47
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