Running With LeMire

 Going into this event I definitely lack motivation to truely race this one! With that said I planned on running with a few of my running group friends that wanted to run around a 1:32 time. The morning of the race started with heavy rains, thunder and lightening so it was going to be an interesting start to say the least. The race started 30 minutes late but they anounced to everyone that it was going to happen and they would review the weather in 20 minutes then make a decision either to start or not. They had people walking around explaining this and we just relaxed in the shopping center halls and stayed nice and dry. The only bad part was I didn't really do any warm up which meant we needed to start slow. We ended up running into some of the running group at the start so started off with them at the 1:40 pacer since he is the running group coach. We chatted for the first 2 miles then Ron and I sped up a little caught another run group guy at the next big hill ran with him up it then sped up a little more enjoying the run conversation and making the best of the heavy rain coming down.  At this point we were consistantly passing people 3-4 at a time then caught the 1:35 pacers just before a short steep hill before the mile 8 marker. At that point I said good job to Ron and I was going to start picking it up since I felt good at that point knowing then next 2.5 miles were pretty easy. I pulled away and just started setting my sights on the next group ahead of me and catching each group of 5-7 people. Then starting the 1.8 mile hill at 10.6 approximately I picked out a group that had a lady wearing bright pink so the goal was to catch her by time we hit the top. I caught her just before the top of the hill and coasted to the next really short but very steep hill. From the top of Trinity Hill it is approimately .75 miles from the finish which is downhill all the way and I finished with a 6:16 mile in which I problably ran 3 quarters of it at 5 something pace. At this point you had to cross a few intersection in which I used my steeplechasing experiance to not get completely slowed as I crossed the rivers flowing down the street. Overall it was a great race in which I had a lot of fun with my new running friends and introduced my neighbor into Half Marathons in which be beat his goal. Not a bad way to spend the day after your birthday. This is the second year I have ran a race right after my birthday so heres to many more!