Now I know this sounds a bit obsessive, but the day before I didn't get to work out because I got a call saying I could pick up my car! And I had to do this before 5:00 when the car fixer upper place closed, so there just wasn't a whole lot time for exercise. Now before you all get all judgmental about my driving and everything, I would just like to say that this had nothing to do with my driving skills. We had a flood here last month, and the garage we rent has a flat roof where apparently, a bunch of water started collecting. Needless to say, the roof caved in...on top of my pretty blue car. The repairs took about two weeks, so I had to drive a crappy rental car for that period of time, so I was really excited when I got my own car back. I therefore decided to do some extra exercise on Friday to make up for the missed exercise on Thursday. Normally I do six or more miles of exercise in a day anyway, so it wasn't like I did more than my body could handle. If I had been able to work out Thursday, I would have been content just to have the race be my exercise for the day. Here is a somewhat blurry, picture of what it looked like.
Anyways, it was really hot for the race. We got there early like I said in order to pick up my packet, and then we found a nice shady place to sit until the race started. There was a really strong breeze that kinda kept things tolerable. The director announced almost as soon as we got there that because of the heat and humidity, the race was only going to be a "fun run." They weren't going to give out awards or anything in hopes of keeping people from going full tilt in order to win their divisions. This really had no effect on me because I'm not good enough to win a race or a division for that matter, and I had planned on taking it easy because of the heat anyways.To compensate for this, the director said we could all get five dollars off next year's race entry. I'll take it! They had races for little kids before the adults started racing, and those were fun to watch. Some kids were really competitive and others you could tell their parents had made them participate haha.
Once the race started, I pretty much wanted to just stop running and go home. It was a very uncomfortable run. It was an out and back course for the most part, and on the way out we were lucky to be running on the side of the road with the shade. On the way back, the sun was brutal. The breeze did help, but it was so humid that the sweat wasn't really going anywhere despite the wind. Some of the people who live on the point had set up sprinklers or they had their hoses and were spraying runners if they wanted to get wet. Normally I avoid that kind of thing because when my shoes get wet, I get blisters, but I pretty much just said fuck it and ran through all the sprinklers I could.
The course itself is very beautiful. There were a lot of views of the water, which I always think are pretty. It was also flat. As a normal rule, I don't mind some hills, but I was happy not to have to deal with any. A lot of people had pretty gardens that we got to run by too.
My time ended up being 43:47. I was pretty happy with this considering the heat. I will definitely be doing this course again. The race itself was well organized, the views were great, and the lack of hills was fun.
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