OK, it's seriously time for a new runniing thread!!

[colby]

Was waiting for my chip time to post before I got overly excited. My goal was to beat my 1:10 time from last year and head toward 1:05. I finished 12k (7.46mi) in .... 1:04:13. Tis an 8:36 mile. Not a flat course, either. I finished 2 years in a row around 1:10-1:12, then this year dropped to 1:04. Whew! I got stuck behind an ROTC crew (running 10 minute miles 4-people wide on a narrow street so few people could pass) that easily lost me 30-60 seconds, too. Not sure where the other 4 minutes are going to come from, but I'm hoping to get under an hour... someday. That's more like 7:45 miles (edited: I might be thinking of the 58 minute mark, which is where you get seeded to start even earlier - I think 1:00 is more like 8:00 miles).

Jogged back to the start and missed my stroller friends, but caught up to my husband who was "racing" our coworker and his wife (she won - by about 5 minutes, then my husband, then the coworker).

Almost 50,000 people finished the race and it's a lot of walkers, which skews these numbers. Interestingly, the race is well over half female finishers since the 80s. It's usually a lot of families, too. Sometimes you see costumes - the best was a mom dressed up like supermom and her 4 or 5 year old son dressed up like superboy - both in capes. There was also a guy running in a speedo advertising for a girlfriend in Seattle on his back. I did see about 5 people in Five Fingers other than my husband and myself, at least that I passed. There could have been more ahead of me. I answered a lot of questions.

Finish Time: 1:04:13
Overall Place: 4,164 out of 49,674 (8%)
Ran with a pace of 8:36 per mile
The average pace for 30-year-olds was 14:12
Placed 112th among 917 people the same age (12%)
Placed 70th among 824 people from Liberty Lake, WA (8%)
Placed 3,140th among 39,793 people from Washington (8%)
Placed 1st among 2 people with the same last name (:P)
Placed 1,036th among 29,854 females (3%)
Placed 32nd out of 583 among 30-year-old females (5%)
Placed 151st out of 2,885 people in your age group (5%)