Paced 1:30 at the Nebo half marathon. Finish time was 1:29:46. I paced with Mack and we were able to push our friend Amber to a PR of 1:28. It was a really fun day and I was incredibly happy to be pacing rather than racing. The morning was really funny so I better tell it because I'm going to want record of it somewhere...
The Pace Group leader Jorge text me early Sat morning to say he had an extra bib for Julia. I didn't see the text until I woke up at 5:30....I was planning to get to the busses at 5:45 and had slept in my running clothes. Anyway I hurried and woke Julia up and we made it to the last bus at 6am. It worked out because we had free range of the porta potties at the finish line and I hate getting to races early. I also had about zero ambition to jog a warmup at 9,000 feet elevation so all was well...I just needed to get there before the gun went off because I was afterall a pacer. About halfway up the canyon the bus driver pulled off the side of the road and just casually said....Ahhh I think the bus is on fire....the engine is at 250 degrees and it is smoking. haha all I could do was laugh because seriously this was hilarious! There were only about 15 of us on the late bus and we had no cellphone service. huh it was 6:35 and I needed to figure out a way to get to the start (we were at mile 7 of the race). I finally flagged down a police officer and talked him into escorting Julia, a friend we made, and I to the start. Perfect we got there at 6:55! It was pretty comical and I was bummed that the cop wouldn't turn the cherries & berries on to escort us in!
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