1:00:01. + at least .5 mile chasing horses off the the trail so the elites could do their workout. hmmmmm. Apparently my "bonnie mile" estimated pace of 9:00/mile is a little off. This is a marked trail and I ran 5.5 on the trail in 46:48 + 13:12 from the house to the park (which I think is about 1.5 miles). Interesting. Anyway -- on with the story. Today was an easy day for me, and I wanted to watch the group workout. So I ran to the park and did a couple of laps slow and then saw them race by me for their first lap (some people were doing 4 miles at threshold, others were doing 10). On my 2nd lap I noticed some horses that seemed to have escaped from someones property. They were trail horses, so they enjoyed standing right in the middle of the trail ... I knew that the fastest runners were going to be going about 5:15 pace, so it wasn't going to be good if they had to navigate around these huge horses. So I ran down to where they were and pushed, prodded and pulled them off of the trail. The guys flew by. Then Jamie and I stayed there for their 3rd lap too (I thought they were all doing 6 miles so I thought we were done) and then we jogged back to the start. Well, 3 of the guys (Olympian Andrew Lemmoncello, Fasil and Nick Arciniaga) were running 10 miles (5 laps) and on their 4th lap they yelled that the horses had been right in the middle of the trail. So, I ran over and moved them again, and stayed there until they came by for their 5th, and final, lap (in 5:00 pace). They looked good!!! Many of you bloggers read this on my FB yesterday, but I will tell everyone. I tied for 1st place in the LetsRun Prediction Contest for the Paris track and field meet (there was $20, 010 on the line sponsored by Puma -- we picked 1st/2nd/3rd place for a few select events - including field events - I got the Women's high jump completely correct for all 3 places, along with the Mens Steeplechase, M 800 meter, M 100m - the Women's 1500 was my downfall). Unfortunately, rather than split the money they had a tie-breaker (I think there were actually 3-4 of us tied for 1st) and the winner was the person who had correctly guessed the highest number of 1st place winners. I missed out on $20K by about 2 picks!!! I had guess more 1-2-3 than the winner, but he had more 1st places overall (I don't think he had any 1-2-3s!). WOW. Anyway Wejo (the owner of LetsRun) is going to see if Puma will at least give us some swag for coming so close!! Cool eh? Wejo wanted to know what my strategy was ... ha ha ha. I said, "I read Track and Field News every month, watch every track meet on TV or on my computer and am a fan ... ". I also told him rather than swag I wanted "quote of the day" -- but I need to think of something good to say ;-) ... I don't know if he is going to give it to me ;-). I hope you are all doing well bloggers!! My chest still hurts, but it does not hurt any more today after yesterday, so I think I am going to try a workout tomorrow.
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