The BolderBoulder was hands down the best 10K I've been part of, in terms of the overall mood of the crowd, the events taking place all around, and the course. This year, this race may be the biggest foot race in the US in terms of entrants, and I've heard, the 5th largest in the world. Once they have all the finishers, they'll know for sure. How cool is that? Over 50,000 people were out there running! Waves left the start about every 4 minutes for approximately two hours. It ended at a big stadium (Folsom Stadium), and the majority of the participants stayed after their race for the Memorial Day celebration events. The pros ran last, and what a sight to see. The women's winner may have set a course record at 29 minutes and change. The Kenyans and Ethiopians have truly amazing running teams. After the pros, they had a set of skydivers jumping with flags for all four military branches and the US flag, then a 21 gun salute, honoring a couple of WWII vets who were present (two gents who survived the Battle of the Bulge, and one of the is the man who started Leanin' Tree cards), the usual patriotic songs, and a F-14 flyover from the Colorado (I think) National Guard. Pretty dang cool.I've run maybe 1/2 a dozen "official" 10Ks and a handful of 5ks, mostly in Eugene and North Carolina, so it was a new experience to do it at altitude. Given that we've lived here for a little over a month now, I have to say I really didn't notice it. The weather was perfect, about 65 degrees, and the course was windy with a bit of rolling hills. Because of the hills, mostly, this wasn't my personal record at 51:29, but not too bad either. Here're my overall stats.
- overall place: 5974
- division: F35
- division place:56 out of 631
- gender place:1367 out of 26011
- mile 1:0:08:31.77
- mile 2:0:08:21.92
- mile 3:0:08:36.57
- mile 4: 0:08:10.65
- mile 5: 0:07:59.00
- mile 6: 0:08:04.40
- net time: 0:51:29.57
- pace: 8:18 (based on net tim
- 5,974, out of 53,000 plus runners? I'll take it. 56th out of 631 in my division? Sure! 1,367th out of 26,011 females? Pretty cool. Looks like the Imogene Pass training is paying off. I'm thinking it's a good thing I didn't grab one of those Miller High Lifes some of the spectators were handing out at mile 4 or I would have been yacking up the last hill. I didn't push as hard as I wanted to thanks to the fact that I've been drinking water with Nuun tablets and they are really not agreeing with me. Going to have to find some other electrolyte replacement method.
- Now for a nap.Then some serious vegging on some Memorial Day movies. Something with explosions seems appropriate.
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