2.2 Mile race in Westport
Westport Roadrunners had a two mile race on Sunday June 28th; it’s too darn hot for this stuff. This race was a lot more low-frills than the 5k races - there were no goodie bags or t-shirts at the signup table, no bananas and granola bars at the end, and no bib numbers or radio-wave timing chips. Timing was done by handing each runner a numbered popsicle stick (no joke) as they crossed the finish line.
All that was fine though - this race was for serious runners, and forced me to push myself. I finished in 19min 29sec, for a pace of 8:59 per mile! Personal record again! (Although this race was shorter than the other races, so that’s cheating. I doubt I could have kept up that pace for another mile.) I was 59th out of 122 finishers (yay!) and 14th out of 16 finishers in my age bracket (ouch.)