Pride Run 10K 2008

On Saturday of Pride for Long Beach, I ran the Shoreline Frontrunners, annual 10K run. http://www.shorelinefrontrunners.org/priderun/results/ It was a very hot, hot day, and by the time the run started at 8AM it was in the upper 80's and very hot. My friend Eric had come down from San Francisco to run it as well. (He runs in the Frontrunners in San Francisco a lot) Also my good friend Tigger ran it with us and my friend Steve. We were all excited and started off with a bang. Because of the heat though, I was sweating buckets by mile three, and then I hit a WALL. I thought I was going to fall over in the sand face first on the beachfront pathway. I managed to keep going though, and persevered to the very end. I made it in across the finish line with a time of 41:23 and was very happy with it.

I didn't think it was anything great, but it turned out I took the 1st place medal for Men's in my age group. 41-50 years. (4th overall) Eric took the 2nd place for his age group and Tigger took the 3rd place medal for her group in women's. We were all very excited about it and went out for a great breakfast later on! It was all good and we had a treat of mimosas to celebrate with our hearty breakfast!