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February 15, 2005
Another quickie 
Hi guys --
We're in Houston now. The whole internet access thing has been very interesting, as in, I've barely had any. The PDA is great, but I can't access my mail, and now Sweetie's computer has inexplicatably (sp?) refused to start. Oh well.
The race. I PRed, though I'm not sure by how much. I don't remember a lot of the details except that it was hot and humid and I was all swollen up like a sausage, and I was dehydrated in spite of hydrating well for days before and drinking about 80 oz of water during. Anyways I think I finished in about 3:40, which would be 13 minutes faster than last time. I walked for the first 7 miles with a school teacher who was very fun even though we were polar opposites on politics. Then I started speeding up and got lucky enough (and I do mean lucky) to have several people who would start jogging once I caught up. So, I just had to work harder. Which was good. I could have worked harder still, but because of all of the above, I held back a little bit -- I didn't want to die at 12.75!
I felt good afterwards, and after an icebath, we eat, drank, eat, drank and then played mini golf at Peter Pan's. Wuhoo!
I was hoping to "run into" Richard or Alex or the one person I know from Portland who was here who was hoping to qualify for Boston (wonder how he did?)at the race, but no such luck.
Posted at February 15, 2005
Comments
Hey, VJ, congratulations! Sounds like you had a great time, and hey, that's a great PR!! I'm proud of you.
I bet it was a tough day--you didn't expect that heat, did you?? Neither did I.
Good work--I hope you are feeling good about your accomplishment. Take care.
Posted by: Marshall at February 15, 2005 6:15 PM
Congratulations on the PR! And in the heat. Great job! Do we get a full report on the weekend's activities? :)
Posted by: Rachel at February 16, 2005 12:37 PM