<p>Rawr <strong>Bob</strong>! Sweet job!</p>
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<p><strong>Amichel</strong> - woohoo! Your goal was anything under 3:00, yes? Rawr!</p>
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<p>Me - some AAAUGH news and some slightly funny news. Recall that this race (Pave the path) last year holds my 10k pr, and the only one where I've broken an hour. With the pre-race announcements, I learned why. Last year, the course was short two blocks. #@)*#$#$. Not so this year. Kudos to them for correcting the route. Boo hiss for them taking us through a section near the finish line that added a small (yet annoying) hill. Finishing time 1:02:12. 1st place AG, though I was the ONLY person in my AG. Ahh well.. two years from now I"ll be in the 40-44 group, and I probably have NO shot there, so I'll take my little trophy and be happy with it. At least I got my a$$ out of bed and worked for it.</p>
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<p>I got tickled towards the end. One chick, I had been trying to reel in for ages. She was running faster than me, but couldn't keep her pace on hills. I'd almost pass her, and then she'd take off again. Grr. On the last (and surprise) hill near the finish line, she started walking and I eventually closed the gap and passed her. At one point, I heard her footsteps as she started to run again, but I refused to 'give' her the spot back. At that point, I thought she just could be the person that bumped me out of a possible AG award, so I was going to make her work for it, at least. After the race, she came up to me and said "I was trying SO HARD to catch you!" to which I responded "And I was trying so hard NOT to let you!". </p>
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<p>Turns out she is 5 years younger than me, so it didn't matter anyway, but we both got a good laugh at it and enjoyed the push at the end.
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<p><strong>Amichel</strong> - woohoo! Your goal was anything under 3:00, yes? Rawr!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Me - some AAAUGH news and some slightly funny news. Recall that this race (Pave the path) last year holds my 10k pr, and the only one where I've broken an hour. With the pre-race announcements, I learned why. Last year, the course was short two blocks. #@)*#$#$. Not so this year. Kudos to them for correcting the route. Boo hiss for them taking us through a section near the finish line that added a small (yet annoying) hill. Finishing time 1:02:12. 1st place AG, though I was the ONLY person in my AG. Ahh well.. two years from now I"ll be in the 40-44 group, and I probably have NO shot there, so I'll take my little trophy and be happy with it. At least I got my a$$ out of bed and worked for it.</p>
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<p>I got tickled towards the end. One chick, I had been trying to reel in for ages. She was running faster than me, but couldn't keep her pace on hills. I'd almost pass her, and then she'd take off again. Grr. On the last (and surprise) hill near the finish line, she started walking and I eventually closed the gap and passed her. At one point, I heard her footsteps as she started to run again, but I refused to 'give' her the spot back. At that point, I thought she just could be the person that bumped me out of a possible AG award, so I was going to make her work for it, at least. After the race, she came up to me and said "I was trying SO HARD to catch you!" to which I responded "And I was trying so hard NOT to let you!". </p>
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<p>Turns out she is 5 years younger than me, so it didn't matter anyway, but we both got a good laugh at it and enjoyed the push at the end.
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