If you could see me now you would see a really sad face. :( No golden ticket for me today. Tom and I stuck around waiting forever until they were to announce the winner of the guarantee spot for SGM. In order to qualify for this one you had to submit a story of overcoming adversity. I had an email from the race director after entering my story that sounded promising. Then today I talked to the race director to find out when they would be announcing the winner and she sounded like I would want to make sure to be around for the announcement. I really felt encouraged because I knew there weren't a whole lot of people who had entered. Well, they finally got around to the big announcement. But just before they did it, the race director discretely came over to me and told me she was really sorry that my story didn't get chosen and she wanted to give me a $30.00 gift certificate for a hair salon. She said the girl who won was hit by a van at mile 21 of last year's Ogden Marathon. Another lady came over right after and asked when they would tell the winner and she said, "in just a minute." But she didn't offer any sympathy or gift certificates to her. I kind of wonder if they were planning on my story until a late entry by the winner and it made the race director feel bad for me or something. Anyway, I'm still on the lookout for ways to get in the SGM. I will not give up! As far as the race goes, I planned to run this one at whatever speed my body wanted to without feeling yucky. I ran a 5K a few weeks ago and want to push hard on one next week too. So I didn't even wear the Garmin or a watch or anything. Two very fun things to this race. 1. Very pretty throughout the gardens at Thanksgiving Point. And 2. I passed people all the way from the beginning to the end. And that was without an all out effort. Oh...I just remembered a third fun thing... Free Cinnabons and Ice cream bars at the end!
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