12/08/09
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PRR Executive @ 12:01 am
Gunner Shaw XC 10k
I had the pleasure of running this muddy, icey, smelly cross country race on Saturday. It has you running on pretty much every surface imaginable except pavement. It was a beautiful morning on Jericho beach and I probably would have done better if I wasn’t nursing a monster hangover from the night before (thanks to whoever kept buying me drinks - I don’t remember who you are!) and I also wasn’t having hip problems from the great PRR simultaneous group wipeout of 2009 (never forget).
As it stood my time was as follows:
Santa Shuffle 5k
Dean and Dianna ran for the Salvation Army on this run the same Saturday around Stanley Park. Dianna gave me ballpark numbers for their times, which i don’t think were officially recorded:
- Dean: 23 minutes
- Dianna: 30 minutes (claims to have been slowed down by 1 teenager and 2 dogs - one of which she had to carry part of the way. She says we can guess which one)
Pictures here:
http://bit.ly/6vqctN
California International Marathon
Dan headed down to Sacramento this weekend to get that elusive Boston qualifying time. He sadly fell short of his goal, but ran a great race nonetheless. He summarized it as follows:
“My time was 4:31:38, which was still my third best marathon after Vancouver in 1988 and Victoria in 2000. It was number 12 and for those who believe in age grading it worked out to 3:30:48 and my second best effort ever. So, while I really wanted to go to Boston, I am very happy with the result yesterday. Weather was pretty good but there was a fairly strong headwind. Thankfully it was bright sunshine, so even though air temp was cold, the radiant energy from the sun kept things reasonably warm.”
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December 18th, 2009 at 10:41 pm Awesome effort Dan, and I’m sure an amazing race to experience despte not getting your goal. Congrats on that great age graded result!