I do love running in the rain and the course was unbelievably beautiful!!! We ran through their Tulip Gardens, around thanksgiving point and onto the golf course. Simply amazing...
The only problem with the course, I was racing it so I couldn't enjoy it as much as I would have liked to. ;) (My family and I will definitely go back to walk through the gardens!) The course was HARD! I should have known that after the 1st mile of most of it being a slight up hill that the course would be tough. I did start off too fast for this course... By mile 9, I was mentally and physically tired. I ran the last 4.1 purely on wanting to finish... I was able to keep up my pace to finish off 2nd overall in women's at a time of 1:24.45. (I won $250 cash, so that was a bonus!!! :)) I was a little upset with my time until I looked at the last couple of years results and noticed that this truly was a tough course. There were lots of hills and there were some areas on the course that was slippery from all the rain but it was all part of the adventure. We were all soaking and cold when we finished but the rain was fun. The women's overall winner (Devra) is an amazing runner and I am proud to say I ran with her for the 1st 3 miles. :) I ran a 2 mile warmup and was able to run a 2 1/2 mile cool down but not until an hour later. I left the race as soon as I finished to book it down to a high school track meet. I wanted to make sure I caught the miles... After the mile races were done, I was able to run my cool down with some of the kids...
2nd Place Overall in womens with a time of 1:24.45 or 46 or something...
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Nice work Jen!
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