Corporate Cup Games

I ran my race yesterday, Saturday the 10th.  I’m not quite sure of the time on my mile, but it was probably between 6:20 -6:35.  Tobin timed me at 6:38, but he timed me through the chute instead of at the finish line.  So I’d estimate 6:30.  I beat my personal goal and personal best time!

The surprise is that I actually came in second!  There were 29 female runners competing against me in the one mile road course.  One girl took off in front right at the beginning, and I thought she was going to run a 5 minute mile; but she kept slowing down and slowing down, then doubled over and stopped!  I’m pretty sure she had a cramp; we all called the volunteers over but we weren’t stopping either!

For a brief minute, I was front of the pack!  The turnaround point was my downfall, though; it was the steepest hill of the race, and as I made it through the turn chute and started downhill, a UWF college girl passed me and stayed about 10 paces ahead of me the rest of the race.

But I finished much better than I expected and am grateful I completed the race.  I don’t know how our corporate cup team finished overall, because I left right after the tug-of-war; but I do know one of our ladies won in the hula-hoop contest, my team got third on the blindfolded wheelbarrow, and our company’s egg toss team won second.  I got a nifty cup for the wheelbarrow race, but nothing for the run because it was a cumulative score between me and our male runner.  Since he wasn’t in the top 8, we didn’t get that great of a cumulative score.

If I get pictures I’ll post them.  I know our company got pictures of the runners.