I decided not to run the Women's Race this morning, and instead volunteered. I helped with registration and called 2 mile splits. It was a great day for the race - beautiful weather, which made it surprising that a lot of the "usual suspects" didn't show. Last year I was 8th, and that time if ran today would've been 3rd. It looks as though I wouldn't have been too lonely today if I had run, but I think I made the right choice. It was a lot easier to just say I haven't been running as much / am taking an off year than to explain why I was running 11s! I was sad to not collect an age group prize - they are always neat, and this years was a framed cross-stitch with the race logo on the side. I'm doing a bad job explaining, but they were really cool.
ETA: The track club president posted a picture:
(Sorry no direct link, which I know would be proper etiquette, but I'd rather not have a direct link from my blog to the track club - I'm feeling really sensitive about that right now. I don't check my sitemeter too often, but the last few times I have, I have found that I've picked up some local readers. I don't have any idea who they are, as I haven't told anyone local about my blog and they haven't left comments or sent me an e-mail or anything. I keep meaning to post asking who they are, but just haven't gotten around to it. It makes me nervous/embarrassed to have local readers - it's one thing to tell random people on the internet about being a loser, it's another thing to clue in people that know who you are. And since I have posted pictures and race results, it should be fairly obvious to anyone familiar with the local racing "scene" who I am. Anyway ... the lack of knowing who my local readers are is a large part of why I'm hiding all pregnancy-related posts right now).
I got up early this morning to run on my treadmill before leaving for the race. I often do a bad job estimating how long it will take me to run, but I'm really bad at it now!
