Me and Martha, ready to run!
It's only one mile, and that's both an advantage and the disadvantage. It's over before you know it, but there is no room for mistakes, either. Last year Martha saw a woman stop and re-tie her shoe! We both took second place in our age groups, but we both had slower times,too - in my case, 21 seconds, which is hard to believe. Conclusion: the course must have been short last year, or long this year.
Did you drive the course to see if it really was long? We used to do that, and I remember some being way off!
ReplyDeleteIt would only have been a matter of a few meters, so the more accurate way of measuring would be with my GPS watch rather than the odometer. I plan on doing that next time we go to Waynesville. But we decided that, give or take a few steps, the best measure of our performance was against others in our age group. I was 2nd out of four, Mom was 2nd out of eleven. Not bad!
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