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How I spent Sunday -- 06/10/13 |
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We had huge amounts of rain of Friday (up to four inches) and light rain Saturday morning but Sunday was a sunny and beautiful day. Bright sun and blue skies in the morning... and Jill and I set off for the 5k race we were going to run (Katie DeCubellis Memorial 5k). I had not run that distance since October. I'd run two miles a week or so ago and had felt pretty good, so I thought it would work. I had wanted to try three miles on Friday, but I had no desire to run in a cold rain. I was okay for the first two miles, but then the sun began to get to me. It was not hot compared to a hot day in July or August, but it was a hotter than our recent weather -- and I walked a couple of short distances and then decided that had slowed me down enough that there was no sense in pushing on, so I walked some more, until I came upon Jill waiting for me on the side of the road (having crossed the finish line a long time earlier) and we ran together until 100 feet or so from the finish line.
They had water and oranges and pizza and ice cream -- Brickley's Homemade Ice Cream -- ah, that ice cream tasted so good. I assumed that, having slowed my pace to a walk for a good-sized chunk of the third mile, there was no point in sticking around and Jill had to be at work at noon and I had to be at the Seaside Village Fair in Narragansett to staff the Narragansett Historical Society information table -- so off we went. At lunchtime today I checked online for the race results and discovered that I won the 70+ age group. (No, I was not the only geezer running -- there were four of us, one of whom was just 15 seconds behind me, just four runners back.) Jill, as I noted above, was far ahead of me. She was 5th place for women ages 30-39 And home to shower and change and go spend a couple of hours talking to people about the historical society and Narragansett history. This is of special interest this year because it is Narragansett's 125th anniversary -- until 1888 it was part of the Town of South Kingstown.
A good day -- followed by beer and wings and nachos at Fat Belly's Pub with Jill and Jeremy -- and then the finale of this season of Game of Thrones on HBO.
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