Gallup Gallop official results

According to the computer, my time was actually a little slower than I had thought ... 29:58 (or a pace of 9:40 per mile). At least I still broke a half-hour (barely). And this brought me in 172nd out of 278 finishers, and number 6 out of 6 in my age group (males 50-54). It's a benchmark, from which I expect to be able to make clear improvement in this run next year. (I do realize, though, that I'm at the age when, inevitably, my times are going to start worsening unavoidably. But not yet, I hope!)

Gallup Gallop

This morning, I ran another 5K race, which bore the humorous title of Gallup Gallop, since it was held at Gallup Park, a pleasant spot in Ann Arbor on the Huron River where Michelle and I used to take Christy and John for day trips when I still an inpatient at St. Joseph Hospital following my accident back in 1993. Today was a gorgeous day for a race - brightly sunny and warm, but not hot (68 degrees) - and it was a pleasant size field. We were told that there were slightly over 300 runners. I did relatively well, although not as well as I had hoped. I couldn't spot the starting line, so I took the best guess I could with my watch, and will thus be eager to learn my computer time. But I recorded a time of 29:34 (a pace of 9:31 per mile), which, though not a bad time, was not a record, either. I had run a 5K race in Mason on May 1 in 29:14, and last December 13 I ran the Holiday Hustle in Dexter during a light snowfall in 29:29. Oh well - I guess this will keep me from complacency next time I run a 5K! (Though I don't yet know when that will be.)