Rock n Roll Half

     It was a beautiful morning walking my dog at 4 AM with the full harvest moon and fairly warm temps.....until we got drenched by the sprinklers at the Elementary School!  What a way to wake up.
     By 4:45 I was on my way to the light-rail which delivered me downtown by 6.  It was a quick mile walk to the Civic Center Park with lots of other crazies.
      The race was hard but I finished.  Yay. It was 85 degrees by the end...a bit warm.

At the start with Angela and Ellen

My weekend Bling, It is all about the Bling, a 5K medal, a Half marathon medal, and the Remix medal for doing both.

My official time was 2:57:48.  Overall 5835/6661.  Division 10/26.  Gender 3456/4113.  My GPS watch said I ran 13.55 miles, though;  not the 13.1 they claim. There were so many twists and turns on the route, I obviously didn't take the shortest corners.

Ellen and Angela did the 10K and had a blast finishing 1:28.

More than 14,000 runners and wheelchair racers did the 10K and Half. I forget that there are professionals actually competing in the race. I certainly never get to see them.
 Ethiopian Gebrekidan Abadi, 32, who lives in the Denver area, won the race in 1:06:46, while Kenyan Elvin Kibet, 26, of Colorado Springs, won the women’s division in 1:15:22 by edging out her twin sister,Valentine Kibet by 3 seconds at the finish line.