Kaiser Half Marathon report

First off I did not sleep well last night. It sounded like all of the Zombies, Skeletons and Ghosts that live within a square mile of my place were getting ready for the Super Bowl. It was like Edgar Allen Poe had control of the weather channel.
Actually used the alarm as I did not want to have to stress about parking.

The forecast was for rain so I had more gear than normal.

Parked at 36th and Fulton and walked up as I did not want to walk to where the shuttles are picking up as I did not know the score.

Stood around and the weather could not make up its mind. Even before the race it was nice and then not so nice and rainy. I was glad I had nicer rain gear than a plastic bag. Those people look poor.

The race itself was good. I had JELLY before opposite of fred and then at the 4.5 mile mark and the 9 mile mark. My pace was really important and I only stopped to get my legs for a couple of minutes. I ran the clock on the iPod the whole time so two hours and twenty six minutes reflects the time from the cross of the start to the finish. The race was actually well longer than a half marathon. I will need to teach Kaiser division.

The rain was not bad until we got to the great highway and it was a cold rain and wind I was going against for a couple of miles.

Got a medal and I did not even blow up the Death Star. I wonder where Han and Luke kept their Medal. Also why did Biggs and Chewbacca not get a medal in Episode IV and did Lando get one in ROTJ?

I called someone a bad name in the shoot for darting past me but in the scheme of things it does not matter.

Was happy with my time considering I ran the half marathon I did the 5K last year.

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