Cora!  It was fun yet absolutely brutal.  Quite a challenging course.  I had a pretty hefty chest cold all week before but was healthy enough to run.  the weather was a bit warm and it rained on us for the first 30 minutes or so...  I went through the turn around in an hour and totally crashed with about 2 miles left.  Walking and runnign and missing a turn at the end I managed to hang on to snag the overall win in 2:05:45.  The overall marathon winner ran 4:01.  Not my greatest race experience but the event itself is at a pretty location with a great group of folks supporting and running the event.  I would like to go back next year and redeem my personal goals and expectations. 

How has your running been?  Any exciting races in the future?  Drop a line everyone.  Lets do a spring check in 

I've registered for the Half at Grasslands and am just looking to steadily increase my mileage and possibly pursue a fall marathon.... Happy running all....

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Glad to hear you'r feeling better too Cora.  I might see you out at the zoo run.  Maybe if I do I can finally get you the award from our relay two White Rock Relays ago 

Anyhow, have a great run!

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No, I haven't heard about that one.  What's it called and when is it?  Brinker is the founder of the Race for the Cure, right?

Here it is:  Camper Scamper benefiting Camp John Marc. April 14th.

Okay, now I have to back pedal a bit. This is a Luke's run, and as much as I like Luke's, the fact is that RunOn and Luke's both do outstanding jobs in local race management.

I live in Coppell and visit Paul's store a lot, and I am a huge supporter of RunOn races. Paul himself is a terrific runner and very professional in his work. They do an outstanding job. I also run many races that Luke's puts on. To be fairminded, let me just insert one editorial comment:

The two biggest and best local running stores, Luke's and RunOn, deserve your patronage for the efforts they put in to boost running and races in the metroplex, so given you have many sources of buying running shoes and apparel, for heaven's sake, don't buy off the internet, or from the chains like Academy, or Athlete's Foot in the malls.  Buy your stuff locally from the stores who support us, the runners.  These guys are all part of us.   Spareribs

Hey!  Anyone doing the River Run 8k this weekened (March 17)?  I'm planning to register tomorrow.  Haven't run this race before, but I run parts of the course all the time (especially the gravel trail on the north side of the Trinity River between Beach Street and Belknap).

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I'm planning on going. My first time for this race also. Are you going to the running clinic on Friday?

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No, unfortunately. We have an event at church Friday night.

I'll see you on Saturday morning, though.

BTW, I ran the course this morning, and I noticed a few things:

-The trail forks at a few places where it's not real obvious which fork to take; I hope they have adequate markers Saturday.<br />-There are muddy spots, even on the paved part of the trail.  (Not a big problem, but something to watch out for.)
-There's an AWFUL LOT of trash washed up at the low-water crossing east of Beach Street, and I mean TRASH!...a vacuum cleaner, bottles, cups, household grabage bags, not to mention logs and other debris.  It's not so bad you can't step over it or navigate around it, but it's at least an eyesore.  I hope they clean it up before Saturday.  (Oddly enough, there's no trash at the low-water crossing by the 4th Street bridge.)<br /><br />I'm hoping for a PR.  I've never done as well on 5 miles/8k as other distancesthis according to McMillan's equivalent performance predictor.  Either I've gone out too fast like 5k pace and ended up slowing down, or else run it all slower than I'm capable.  So Saturday is an experiment on how to run my best 8k.

Weather looks to be good.

Great run yesterday Cora.   Spareribs

I must be a thread-killer.  Minute I start posting on a thread, everyone bails.

Am looking for a good fiveK on March 31 or April 1, Dallas area.  The MS run looked good but you have to have pledges and form teams, so that is out.  What are others doing?  Ft. Worth is a long drive for me.  Spareribs