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gretriever
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 Posted: 11/12/05 - 15:12 Post subject: Once again - Coach knows her people (race report w. updates)
Gobbler Hobbler 10K, Oswego IL
I neeed to get back in the racing part of my running, with Memphis only three weeks away (!). And as it's been well over a year since my last race at 10K, this was as good a time as any.
Oswego is on the edge of the suburban Chicago area, to the southwest. The community is along the banks of the Fox River, and that kept the temperature down for the race - 42 @ 9 AM, with a south breeze of 9.
The course starts out coing through residential streets (sort of reminds me of my club's Turkey Trot course), and then hits a bike trail for abuot a mile and a half. It's an out-and-back.
After the first half mile, I did get a good rhythm going, running came easy (being a fairly flat course certainly did not hurt. At about a mile and a half, I passed two girls from one of Oswego's HS XC teams - one was sick, the other trying to help her out (they were all in their practice outfits - must have been coach's assignment). That didn't look to promising.
Surprisingly, thuogh, the race did go well. At the six-mile lark, I got alongside another of the HS runners, and we talk to each other. When it gets on the path for the final 200 meters, a guy on the side yells, "C'MON, DANIELLE - DON'T LET THE OLD GUY BEAT YOU!" She looked at me, and I did the only thing I could think of. I laughed. We then sprint to the finish - and she did beat me by two seconds. Afterward, she came up, and said "Thanks for pushing me", and gave me a big hug. (So  to that guy on the sidelines).
Placings were so-so 169 of 327 (again in the middle of things), and I think another low AG - I haven't got to do the numbers on that yet, but I think this was another race where my AG had the most competitors  . As to the time, Coach sent me this PM yesterday:
| JACKED UP wrote: | Good Luck tomorrow. You have had some fast runs.   I'm sayin' 52:22. |
The Retriever did not run 52:22.
He ran (officially) 52:18. Second fastest 10K, which I'm more than happy about, given it's been so long since the last 10. Less than 40 seconds from the PR. The clock time at the finish said 52:12, and my watch had :52:10.76. And the splits - fast start, fast end, and consistent in the middle - 8:09, 8:29, 8:29, 8:33, 8:34, 8:18, and the last bit at a 7:41 pace.
Placings - could have done better. Time - happy. Overall - a nice day's run.
Updated standings from the OPD:
Overall - 169 of 358 (top half after all )
Males - 123 of 193
AG - 16 of 20
Last edited by gretriever on 11/16/05 - 21:51; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: 11/12/05 - 15:26 Post subject:
I scares myself sometimes.  Excellent job Steve. Great race!  
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JamieoftheNorth
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Posted: 11/12/05 - 15:47 Post subject:
Good race! I'm an assistant H.S. XC coach, so the part of your race report about the guy yelling to his runner to not let the old guy beat you cracked me up! Probably was her father or coach.
Awesome report. Congrats on breaking the prediction! 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 11/12/05 - 16:47 Post subject:
wow, she scares me sometimes 
great job gretreiver. great splits, sounds like a good run for ya! congrats on your second best 10K
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akern
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Posted: 11/12/05 - 16:49 Post subject: Re: Once again - Coach knows her people (race report)
| gretriever wrote: | "C'MON, DANIELLE - DON'T LET THE OLD GUY BEAT YOU!"
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 *snort*
You must be GrandPA shuffle. 
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Pug
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Posted: 11/12/05 - 18:29 Post subject:
Nice race! Always great to have one of your faster times, and JU is scaring me.
The old guy line is funny! (a 42 year old man got 2nd overall in my 5k...I think)
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Kimba90
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Posted: 11/12/05 - 19:48 Post subject:
GREAT time then!!!!! good for you!!!
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Posted: 11/13/05 - 00:13 Post subject:
Wait - you were chatting with someone at the end and still ran your second-fastest 10K?? 
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Zatoichi
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Posted: 11/13/05 - 14:51 Post subject:
Nice going GR! (from another old guy) 
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Posted: 11/13/05 - 20:13 Post subject:
| thooogy wrote: | | Wait - you were chatting with someone at the end and still ran your second-fastest 10K?? |
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