Steeler’s 5K 2007 Results
Published 9.04.2007 by ~mattg
My final time for the Steeler’s 5K was 27:15. I was 15 seconds off of my goal, which isn’t bad. However, in my mind I could have run faster and I’m protesting my own time.
When we checked in, we were given a chip to place on our shoe. I thought, given what I’ve heard about said chips, that the time would start when I crossed the starting line and finish when I crossed the finish line. I was only half right. Apparently, the chip was used for end time only. The start time was when the pistol went off. Given that we were near the back of the pack, it took me at least 30 seconds to get to the start line.
Once I started, I spent the majority of the first half mile weaving in and out of walkers and slower runners. The slower runners I expected to have to deal with: the walkers, not so much. Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for people coming out and walking, and it is through no fault of their own that they hindered some people behind them. In my opinion, the race organizers could have done a better job of making sure the walkers were behind the runners, so that this type of congestion did not occur. Let me put it this way: About a quarter mile in I passed an older woman and her two grandsons. The only way for them to possibly have been that far ahead of me was that they started near the front of the pack, which means I wasn’t the only person who had to run around them.
In any case, I made up that wasted time as best I could and finished quite respectably. Dana and I are tossing around the idea of running in the Great Race on September 30th. That gives me a month to prepare.
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