Your humble editor and his
wife drove to Brevard in light but steadily diminishing rain on a mild Saturday
morning. Arriving at the Brewery (great
venue for any road race), it was still raining, but literally as soon as we
signed the race day entry forms, the rain stopped, and by the end of the race
the sun was shining. It just goes to
show: if runners merely show up and
persevere, conditions often improve dramatically. Or worsen dramatically. We saw Miguel Rosas at the finish line; Miguel
just started running with us last week and ran a good race. This is a well-organized race on a relatively
flat course
at an easy-going time of day (11:00 a.m.), and we will put it on our personal
race calendars for next year. It’s a
good time of year to knock out the cobwebs after a winter of low mileage and
spotty consistency. And after all, it’s
the Lenten season, a time for humility and repentance, and it is always
humbling to get beaten by a nine-year-old and three eight-year-olds, as this extremely humble editor soundly
was. On the other hand, it was the first
4-miler I had ever run, and thus I set a new PR, as did Martha. Not something we do very often these days.
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