Thanksgiving 2008

The 5K (5 kilometers, or 3.1 miles) is a typical road race distance. I have run several during the past 3 years, and have progressively lowered my times. In September 2007 I ran one at 32:59, but since then have pursued the goal of breaking a half hour ... so far, unsuccessfully. But I make my latest attempt at this time in a "Turkey Trot" this morning on the North Campus of the University of Michigan here in Ann Arbor. I only found out about this run yesterday, but was able to get registered, and look forward to it. It should be a nippy run ... right now (5:15 AM) it is 24 degrees. However, after I learned about this yesterday, I decided to take the day off from running, and I turned in early last night, after getting home from the Thanksgiving Eve service at church, so am well rested and looking forward to going at it hard. A number of my recent training runs have featured paces that would enable me to break a half hour, so I am hopeful. And one other attractive feature of this run is that it starts directly across the street from where my then-wife, Deb, and I lived in 1981-82, and winds through North Campus, including a loop down to the School of Music, where I earned my Masters degree (1982). So it'll be fun to be on familiar grounds.