Monday, March 28, 2011

Lost in the Crowd . . .


Lost in the Crowd . . .
Originally uploaded by Ontario Wanderer

. . . is better than being trampled in the crowd. Given just over 7000 runners were in the Around-the-Bay 30 km race and given that most of them were faster than I am, I chose to be in the back of this crowd. Actually, I am probably not even in this photo yet. Fleur-Ange was on a pedestrian overpass looking for me when she took this photo. She almost missed me but managed to get a photo of my back from the other side of the overpass a bit later.

I finished in 3 hours 47 minutes or 10 minutes faster than three years ago when I was only 65. I felt better than I had in the previous race but was having a bit of vertigo in the morning and during the run so perhaps without that I could have been a bit faster. Not much though.

2 comments:

Arpey said...

Wow, you put me to shame! How much training do you do?

Ontario Wanderer said...

At my age I need more rest so I only run three times a week. Midweek runs are usually around 6 km and weekend long runs depend upon the race schedule. My longest run to prepare for the 30 k race was only 26 k. In between long races I usually keep a 16 k run for the weekends. I do a 10 & 1 series or a 9 & 1 series depending upon how long the run is.