Black Squirrel Half Marathon
Saturday was the 3rd running of the Black Squirrel Half Marathon. It’s a roughly triangularroute up and over the top of Lory State Park and back along the East ValleyTrail.
I finished 97th out of 312 in 2:23:24. This is 7 minutes slower than my trailhalf on Taylor Mountain outside Issaquah, WA in June. I had a cold and hadn’tslept well in a few days so wasn’t at my best. Between the last two aidstations I was going backwards, but rallied enough over the last 2.5 miles tomove up 3 places. Although I didn’t do as well as I’d hoped, I enjoyed the raceand finished with nothing left in my tank and no regrets. High points: hangingout with my friend and former ultimate teammate Jeanne (who finished 3rd in thewomens masters category), not falling on any rocks, shady pine groves on theWest Ridge Trail, and a great view of Longs Peak from the top.
Ruth battled back from a slow start to finish in 2:35:57. She said she passedabout 50 runners on the singletrack going up and that the intermittent speedbursts and lack of consistent pace was exhausting. Aaron Anderson, who works ina lab down the hall from Ruth, was the winner in 1:30:02. This was 8 minutesfaster than the winning time in Issaquah!
It’s humbling to be a mere mortal among actually elite athletes, but it’s alsocompletely okay. See also Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s great Pycon keynote on being average in running and programming.
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Saturday was the 3rd running of the Black Squirrel Half Marathon. It’s a roughly triangularroute up and over the top of Lory State Park and back along the East ValleyTrail.
I finished 97th out of 312 in 2:23:24. This is 7 minutes slower than my trailhalf on Taylor Mountain outside Issaquah, WA in June. I had a cold and hadn’tslept well in a few days so wasn’t at my best. Between the last two aidstations I was going backwards, but rallied enough over the last 2.5 miles tomove up 3 places. Although I didn’t do as well as I’d hoped, I enjoyed the raceand finished with nothing left in my tank and no regrets. High points: hangingout with my friend and former ultimate teammate Jeanne (who finished 3rd in thewomens masters category), not falling on any rocks, shady pine groves on theWest Ridge Trail, and a great view of Longs Peak from the top.
Ruth battled back from a slow start to finish in 2:35:57. She said she passedabout 50 runners on the singletrack going up and that the intermittent speedbursts and lack of consistent pace was exhausting. Aaron Anderson, who works ina lab down the hall from Ruth, was the winner in 1:30:02. This was 8 minutesfaster than the winning time in Issaquah!
It’s humbling to be a mere mortal among actually elite athletes, but it’s alsocompletely okay. See also Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s great Pycon keynote on being average in running and programming.
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