Firecracker 4K Summary

I told many of you how for this race, since it was short and flat, I planned to just go all out, or die trying.

Well, a funny thing happened to the course: they totally changed it because of all the construction on campus. So while I am pretty sure that it was still 4K, some hills got added, as well as the confusion factor. I don't think I was ever too clear on where I was going!

It was warm and humid, and crowded. I got bumped a few times, which I was used to from my high school days. Although that was more from folks being competitive than from people not paying attention. I ran side-by-side for about a mile with this girl who had red, white, and blue pom-poms in her hair. I finally passed her in the last kilometer.

So anyway the course was tougher than I expected, and I didn't know where I was going, but I still wanted to push myself a little bit. I wasn't going as hard as I had planned, but I was still dying when I was approaching the 2-mile mark. (Maybe I shouldn't have done all the swimming and volleyball yesterday?) But I managed to get my legs back for the last half-mile, and I passed a bunch of people.

I finished in 65th place overall, 11th in my class, with a time of 17:20. That puts me at just under 7 minutes per mile, so I continue to shave time off my pace.

Congratulations to the Paynes as well, who both ran the whole crazy course. Here's the complete results.