#95 - Run a 5k (contributed by Jess Bickel)

May 16, 2009 - The Riverfront Run to benefit The Riverfront Children's Center in Groton, CT - It was actually more like 5.3-5.5 km. Cathy Johnson (a friend from work) talked me into it almost-last-minute. Will Repsher and Dan Ippolito joined us. It was a relatively cool, foggy morning. Perfect running weather. I chose to stick with Cathy, even though she runs slower than I do. It was worth it because she says she would have stopped a couple of times if I hadn't been there. In sticking with my promise to never reveal my time to my friend Dwija, who is annoyingly over-competitive and would give me a ton of shit for it because she could have done better, despite the fact that I openly admit that my time was not impressive and I'm okay with it because I went slower so I could keep with a friend, I will not post my time here. I will, however, note that I took 3rd place in the men's 30-39 ("submaster") group! My theory is that there were only three men in the group, or possibly even two but that my time was so much worse than 1st place that they couldn't justify giving me 2nd. Also, thanks to the slower pace we kept, I honestly felt that I could have run it again. Perhaps I'm starting to hate running less than I did only a few weeks ago?

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