Saturday July 29
I ran in the 5K Brewer Sausage Walk/Run today. The race was run through the grounds of Miller Park which is our ballpark in Milwaukee. the temperature was a hot, humid and sunny 85 degrees at the start of the race. We had about 300 yards of shade on the whole course and between the heat and the sun it set a slower pace for everybody. I finished at 36:02 and my running partners were about 3 minutes off of there pace as well. The funniest part of the run was the Klements Racing sausages who ran the race in their full mascot costumes which had to be very hot. When I made the last turn for the finish line I saw what I thought was the last of the sausages about 100 yards ahead of me. With a 1/4 mile to go I couldn't let the mascot beat me. I set my sights on what I found out later was a young lady and I crossed the finish line a few yards in front of her. I was just picturing myself tripping on the timing mat at the end of the race and taking out the poor girl but I managed to stay on my feet. When my friends saw me finish they were cracking up because they could see I was pushing it and they knew why. As we were laughing about it the fasteset of our group said that as she made the final turn their was a sausage ahead of her and she couldn't catch her. So I still ended up getting beat by a mascot. We were happy to all finish but running in that kind of heat with all that sun was brutal. We are looking for another run towards the end of August otherwise the next run will be in the Middle of September for Al's run which is a 8K. Then the week after that we are going to Madison,WI for a 3 x 5K relay.
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