Short moments of Glory

The "OOOOOOOGL" team (the other "G" had a jump start)

My moment of Glory: Bay to Breakers 2005 – more than 70.000 participants and according to the official results, I had finished on place 172 with a time of 1:05:38 for the 12K (7.46 miles) race.

However, my moment of Glory was short lived; other team members had classifications that seemed unrealistically high as well so the realization settled in that the results were probably applicable to team runners only. And honestly, there were at least more than 1000 people in front of me when I crossed the finish line.

I still consider this result a victory though. A victory of mind over body. The last 2 miles my body was begging me to stop running and just walk the last 2 miles - my stomach felt weird, I was out of breath and my legs were hurting. Before starting the race, my head might have thought that I was still 18 but my body obviously didn't agree. And who was I doing this for anyway? But my mind ignored the alarm signals and I completed the race running. I made a statement: I don’t give up when things get tough. Which brings me back to the main thread of this blog, my dating adventures. But more about that another time.

Update: the initial results were off by a factor 10; I finished as number 1722.. :)