They've posted the official results. I came in 171st overall, 38th in my age group. More importantly, my overall time was 48:26.0, which is 7:48 per mile. That's about 6 minutes faster than my time last year. Ironically, even though I was faster this time, I came in 2 places lower in my age group.
Previously.
The pictures from the Shamrock 'n Half Marathon have been posted. These are the best pictures of all the races I've been in, so I'm actually debating if it's worth the $50 to buy them. There are 9 pictures of me, so that's about $5.50 a picture. Well, I have at least until 6/21 before they charge an extra $5 for the privilege of ordering the pictures, so I do have time to think about it.
This morning, my sister and I ran the 10k in the Lafayette
Reservoir Run. This has to be the fastest I've ever seen official
results posted, but my time has been posted. Not as fast as two weeks ago, but I think I had a better overall run. I definitely had a much better finish, as I had plenty of energy left to sprint to the finish line. And when these guys say that it's a hilly course, they don't joke. The path around the reservoir was pretty, but had some gnarly hills.
I'll post pictures if/when they get posted to the interwebs. I'm pretty
sure they got me in the official pics this time.
Oh, yeah one random note: the shirt design for the race looks pretty
crappy on the website, but it actually looks pretty good on the shirt.
I'm happily surprised.
While I ran this two weeks ago (October 10th), I forgot to go back and look up the official results until today. I'm on there as "Ben Jones-Bey", because they apparently decided that I must have made a typo in my name. Anyways, I did it in 47:58, which is about 7 minutes faster than my previous 10k time. Of course, it's a different course and all, but I'm still quite happy about that. I'm doing the Lafayette Reservoir Run this weekend, and we'll see how that compares.
I ran the Banana Chase 5k yesterday, and I did much much better than I would have expected. I finished in 24:01 - that's a 7:45 minute mile average. And I must say that it was better organized than any of the other races I've been to: RhodyCo really puts on a good event, and all of their events are for a good cause. I'd be doing the Bridge to Bridge 12k, but I'm going to be out of town that weekend.
The official pictures haven't been posted yet, but Mara took a picture of me coming into the finish. (And completely losing all my form in my sprint to the end.) Yeah, it's a bit blurry. That's 'cuz I'm so speedy. ;)
It looks like I did it in 54:53, and came in 36th in my age group (19-29). I'm pleasintly surprised.
