We did the Enterprise races today, my wife Erica and my daughter Stefani did the 5k, and I did the 10k. THis race has so much potential, the cool weather in the middle of summer, the downhill course, but man, they could tighten up a few things to make it really a nice race. They didn't have enough buses, so a bit of a delay there, but not a big deal. The guy in charge of the start didn't know exactly where the starting line was, we just kind of picked a spot, and he said go. Then, the mile markers were 5,4,3,2,1.......was the 5 meaning 5 miles to go, and so we ran 1.2 miles to start? And finally, i have always had my suspicions on the distance, but, oh well, you take what you get. Of course there are positives, it is a nice small town race, great finish line area, friendly people, the course is great, approx 4 miles of downhill, and two miles of fairly flat, with the last mile down the main street of this town. My mile splits are all over the place, 5.41, 6.06, 5.19,6.06, 6.09, 5.57, and i have no idea which part of the miles contained the 0.2. I have talked to others in the past who ran with a GPS, and they all came pretty close to 6.2 in distance, so i guess this is a 10k. Cheers Mike |