On Memorial Day we got up bright and early and headed to the bus which was headed to Boulder. Crazy place Boulder is and the Bolder Boulder is a crazy race. No one was handing out bacon this year but along the race route there were people handing out beer and cupcakes and organic Doritos, cotton candy, marshmallows and free hugs! Not that I could have eaten any of the good food without puking but it's fun just to see all of the people having fun with the race. Next year I think I plan to walk it at a leisurely pace and partake of all of the goodness the event has to offer, okay not the beer but for sure the cotton candy and hopefully there will be bacon. I also plan to do the slip and slide and get a free hug from everyone who is offering one. Any way, our official times were:
Bryce-59:03
Natalie-1:25:03 (that included a 4 minute bathroom break)
I looked at all of the results by age today and it turns out that I got my trash kicked by a whole bunch of people as young as 6 years old all the way up to 84 years old. How ever, there were two 85 year old people and I beat them both, so BOO YEAH!!
They list the top 30 men and top 30 women in each age group and Bryce was less than 1 minute behind the #30 boy in his age group which I think is great. There are some dang fast kids out there though, the #1 10 year old boy finished in just under 34 minutes. That's about how fast I can fun a 5K and the Bolder Boulder is 10K. I don't know how they do it. Pretty Amazing!
3 comments:
you are almost 1/2way to your goal!!! Can you feel it? It's almost downhill from here.
I love the 10K distance, it's my absolute favorite race for sure. Glad you had fun! DO it next year, too, and you will be shocked and how much faster you are after training for and running a half. You'll become one of thos people that's like, "Well it was ONLY a 10K, so no big deal..."
Congrats, Natalie! And I think that's great that Bryce runs it too!
the 5k is my favorite distance if i had to choose one. the truth is i still hate running. if i survive this tri this weekend and the half in two weeks i thing i will just be a walker for a while.
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