Just do it

Another base race.  We had the opportunity to win a ham.  Rebecca ran with the running stroller.  There was a guy at the beginning that did some kind of weird pretend yawn.  I don't know if he was trying to make it seem like he was hot stuff but he wasn't yawning 200 meters down the road.  We enjoyed the race but I found it strange that all of the award winners were male.  I then realized that no females were recognized in the age groups.  I approached the directors afteward to inquire as to why.  They said that they just grouped everyone together in the age groups and didn't separate male and female.  They said that was last race but not this race.  I was a bit taken aback and I told them that they can't just combine male and female into age groups.  They became defensive and one said "We'll take that into consideration."  Umm really?  I guess they can contact Olympics and let them know that there shouldn't be separate categories for male and female.  That makes sense.

Paced one of my co-workers on his PT test.

This was the first time I did an evening race.  The race started at 5:30 in front of the JW Marriott in the Hill Country of San Antonio.  There was also a 5K and a 10K so there were definitely lots of runners at the beginning.  At the start line there were two guys who definitely looked competitive but the rest looked normal.  I tried to go out fairly conservative since one of the guys at the start said the first half is pretty hilly.  It definitely was.  The first mile was down toward the entry to the resort and back up.  Unfortunately all of the 5k runners had just gotten to the golf course paths by the time we got there.  We had to run past all of them on the left so it was a little annoying.  The course was marked by hundreds of glow sticks but it was still very dark.  I ended up running almost the whole race with a guy named Mitch.  This definitely helped a lot.  He's a contractor that lives in San Antonio.  He took up running again only a year ago and he gave me a run for my money.  I was impressed.  We almost took a couple of wrong turns along the way but we made it eventually.