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I just ran my first race! It was the ‘Everything But The Kitchen Sink’ cross-country 4-miler, in Prospect Park, run by CityCoach. Let me start off by saying these guys did an excellent job running the event. Plenty of food and water for us, a well-marked and well-explained route, prizes and a raffle at the end, plenty of marshals to guide us and cheer for us along the way, and they even ordered in smoe warm temps (about 40) and sunshine. I’m definitely going to do some more of their events.

So yeah, for my first race I did okay. The results will be posted tonight/tomorrow, but I did the 4 miles 35-36 minutes, which is an awesome pace for me on grass/dirt/cinder paths. Not stellar by “athlete” standards but I’ll take it. Blake ran the race with me, and Gorgeous George, and they both beat me by a minute and change, but this way I had people at the finish to cheer me in (where I was able to pass someone in the final sprint – woo!). Blake is a great running partner btw, very inspiring, and I’ll be doing the half-marathon with her and George in April. Wish me luck as training for that continues.

I must say it was fantastic to climb up that last hill and churn towards an actual finish line with people cheering and clapping. I could get used to this.

We went out for coffee afterwards and the place was swarming with stinky racers. And when I got home, I snapped a pic of me with my bib:

And yeah, I started the race hung over. It’s all part of the Zohnika celebration, though. Zohn’s XXXVIIIth birthday party was last night, and small-batch scotch was my friend. It was totally worth it though, especially since The Killer Two and the Sake Queen made an appearance. Pics from Zohnika are up here!