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EDIT: Woot! I improved on my time from 2005. I was not expecting that. YAY!
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pheromone was initially going to bandit (the ras sold out) but instead volunteered and saved my life, or at least my ears, with a loan of her ninja runner hat (balaclava?) (I also discovered this morning that I no longer own a turtleneck. My old ones went to goodwill last year because they were two sizes too big.)
This is the coldest I've run (below freezing), and no sir, I don't like it, not one bit. Except for the part about how it kept me from slowing down much, to avoid feeling the cold again. (I'd peeled off jacket, mittens and ninja hat by the last mile).
rawrin outran me in spite of herself. Mostly because she dodged the slow runners better. By the time I had an opening, I'd started cramping (presumably from breathing in such frozen air), and the surface had gotten very slushy. The slip-potential of the surface bothers me more than the temperature, assuming I have the proper attire. I don't like running on wet surfaces even when it's above freezing.
Even at my pace, the field was clogged. I felt it was mostly due to the snow/slush accumulation narrowing the road width by 2-3 runners worth (and mostly eliminating the sidewalk as an option for slow runners trying to get out of our way). According to pheromone, a significant percentage of the bib numbers went unclaimed (which meant, among other things, most of the volunteers could snag a leftover bib so they could at least get a free beer for their troubles), so, had the weather been better, the clogging probably would still have been an issue. Getting ankled several times by baby jogger wheels was really annoying. I understand why the Boilermaker bans them. Naturally, at the finish line, I mention my irritation in time to seedilletante and wife turn up with their baby in a jogger. "O, but not you, of course." /headsmack
Thanks todictator555, hahathor and ron_newman for coming out to cheer us on. Apparently, I missed a few others. Thanks for making the sacrifice of STANDING STILL when it was so cold out.
| year | pace | total | race |
| 2007 | 10:40 |
33:07 |
Ras na hEireann U.S.A. 5K |
| 2006 | -- | -- | -- |
| 2005 | 11:00 | 34:08 | Ras na hEireann U.S.A. 5K |
| 2004 | 12:34 | 42:41 | Ras na hEireann U.S.A. 3.4 miles |
| 2003 | 12:18 | 41:46 | Ras na hEireann U.S.A. 3.4 miles |
| 2002 | 12:08 | 48:30 | An Ras Mor 4 Miler |
| 2001 | 12:34 | 50:13 | An Ras Mor 4 Miler |
pheromone was initially going to bandit (the ras sold out) but instead volunteered and saved my life, or at least my ears, with a loan of her ninja runner hat (balaclava?) (I also discovered this morning that I no longer own a turtleneck. My old ones went to goodwill last year because they were two sizes too big.)This is the coldest I've run (below freezing), and no sir, I don't like it, not one bit. Except for the part about how it kept me from slowing down much, to avoid feeling the cold again. (I'd peeled off jacket, mittens and ninja hat by the last mile).
rawrin outran me in spite of herself. Mostly because she dodged the slow runners better. By the time I had an opening, I'd started cramping (presumably from breathing in such frozen air), and the surface had gotten very slushy. The slip-potential of the surface bothers me more than the temperature, assuming I have the proper attire. I don't like running on wet surfaces even when it's above freezing.Even at my pace, the field was clogged. I felt it was mostly due to the snow/slush accumulation narrowing the road width by 2-3 runners worth (and mostly eliminating the sidewalk as an option for slow runners trying to get out of our way). According to pheromone, a significant percentage of the bib numbers went unclaimed (which meant, among other things, most of the volunteers could snag a leftover bib so they could at least get a free beer for their troubles), so, had the weather been better, the clogging probably would still have been an issue. Getting ankled several times by baby jogger wheels was really annoying. I understand why the Boilermaker bans them. Naturally, at the finish line, I mention my irritation in time to see
dilletante and wife turn up with their baby in a jogger. "O, but not you, of course." /headsmackThanks to
dictator555, hahathor and ron_newman for coming out to cheer us on. Apparently, I missed a few others. Thanks for making the sacrifice of STANDING STILL when it was so cold out.
