Ya...That's Right. I FINALLY WON!
Last week, I decided on my January Run For The Bling Of It Challenge race and found myself driving down to Eugene last night for a little Pottery Painting with Mai and my mom at Brush-Fire Pottery By You before settling in for a good night's sleep in preparation for this race:
I told my brother last weekend that I had finally entered a race I had a chance of winning. The winner would not be the fastest time, but rather the one who had the closest finishing time to their predicted time (without using watches or timing devices...THIS was hard!). I wanted to run faster than 10m/m so I predicted a finish time of 35:50 and I not only ran a good and mostly pain free (yay!!) race at 9:38m/m but I came in 1st in my age group!!...
...out of 1 :-D
...but I did come in 19/46 overall and I WON THE RACE!!! My predicted time was only 2 seconds off from my finishing time. Yes. I really am that good
.I proudly wear my bling!!! I got the sweatshirt for overall winner and of course my medal...
Thanks for listening me toot my own horn. I'm sure an occasion such as this win will not likely happen again, so you are safe from any future gloating :-D
23 comments:
Way to go you big winner!
that is awesome!! congrats!! and you deserve to gloat and you should. :) i think races like that are really cool. wish we had one here!
This is awesome! Yay! Congrats. Way to know yourself!
You should be super proud!! Lots like you made a haul with your winnings!!
Eugene is such a great running community, I wish I lived closer! Pullman is too far!
Enjoy your victory!
Congrats!!!! That is awesome. I wish I lived closer to Portland/Eugene. There are so many races.
That is just TOO FLIPPIN' COOL!!!!
Does your AG award say anywhere on it that you were the only person in that AG? haha
I don't know yet how many were in my AG yesterday. I just know three of them were in front of me.
Yay, Yay, yay!!! That's awesome!
Jeremiah and I did a time predict one on Thanksgiving morning. I was WAY off. I put a far fetched goal on there thinking it would make me run harder. We get there and it's a hilly all cross country course. It was fun though, it really is different not having a garmin or even a watch.
That's great you have a full March planned. You will have a lot to focus on in Feb. Your training for your 1/2 ironman is going to fly by!
You rock star you! Way to go, and super congrats! What a great way to celebrate your return to injury free running.
Enjoy it, and gloating is mandatory!
That's awesome!!!! Go you!
Awesome! Congrats on that age group win! :)
I'm suck a sucker for good race shwag :) Sounds like a fun morning and a nice shirt to boot!
That is awesome!!! Congrats and enjoy every minute!! :)
Your deserve to toot your own horn. Congrats!!
Thanks Ladies! I'm still on my Winners High :-)
Oh!!!!!!!!!!!! You are VERY consistent!
One of these days I am gonna have to try that Winter Predictor. Thanks for the heads up on the Eugene Race in March. My hubby wants to do a 5K and we couldn't find one before May. He didn't want to do any other distance. There's also the Truffle Shuffle in Feb- chocolate at the end of 4 miles. :)
CONGRATS on the WIN!!! =D You are GOOD!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! How cool! I've never run a race before. You should feel really proud!
Lisa...except for a little thing we like to call HOOD TO COAST!!!!!! what do you mean you've never run a race?
:-)
Sweet! That is impressive to know the time you are going to finish.....and a 1st place is a 1st place!
Thanks for your comment on my blog. Glad to know I'm not the only one to do that. Crazy
Woohoo! That is awesome! I can't believe you predicted your time within 2 seconds...that's just crazy!
That is so awesome that you won and that your prediction was right on!!! I feel like my time is all over the place, so I'm not sure I could get down to second like you did! Great job!!
Wow. what a fun race and an awesome WIN!! Congrats. thanks for the comment on my blog...love this blogging community. I had to laugh about the figure/fitness blog world--I would never fit in there with my two bowls of mocha almond fudge the other day. ;)
Awesome job! I did a race similiar to this way back when and didn't get anywhere close.
Nice job, Numero Uno! :)
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