Grand Prix Final 10K
Sunday, October 13, 2002Race report from Lucie in Montreal...
Date: Mon Oct 14, 2002
Subject: TORONTO 10K RACE REPORT
Ok, here is my report !!. I got up at 6:30am, morning of the race. It was raining a bit but it only lasted for a few minutes. Got my running gear on and waited for Chris (from the Toronto penguin board) to come get me at my hotel. We had a nice breakfast at the Holiday Inn on King Street as it was the first place I’d knew that they have breaky so early in the am lol.. but it was only about 5 min by car from where I was staying at. We talked for a bit, had our food. I had a bit of potatoes, bacon, eggs, small pancakes, etc.. the usual breaky.. with my juice and supps. of course :-))
Then at around 8:30 or so we went to get my package. All there was in the bag was the standard race t-shirt one or 2 flyers and.. get this…. A PACK OF SPAGHETTI lmao!!!! All this for 25$ ?? gosh I had more than that at the Race for the cure and I paid the same thing LMAO…. Chris had forgoten to bring his bib number with him so he ran back to the car and in the meantime, I went to the booth to get my ankle watch.. well I don’t know quite how to call it but its something you put around your ankle and when u cross the finish line it tells the organizers of the exact time you did the race. So we just basically walked around a bit got to the start line. Thank god it had stopped raining but hey.. penguins love the rain huh ?? hehhe.. weather! was very cloudy and a bit cold too but while running, of course we didn’t feel a thing. We chatted up with a few people at the start line.. some guys were talking about greasing their nipples !!!! Hmmm and I told them hey..im the only girl around here.. I feel a bit left out LMAO.. they just laughed…
at 10am.. there goes the gun and here we go runnin. We got with this girl (Jane) and we ran with her for a bit.. encouraged her at all times, etc.. she was very nice !.. Chris “stood” with me alt the way. 1st k I did in about 7:30 or so.. first 4 k’s were not marked so this is just an approximation. We were just a bit over 700 runners… not too crammed at the start line. Run went well, nice flat streets, maybe one or 2 hills but very minor, 3% incline at the mae and no longer than 30 meters or so… first water stop at 4k.. god was glad !! lol.. at the 5k mark I had a time of about 32-33 min approx. if my memory is correct so I was within my time and race pace too.
Very nice settings along the path. You can see on my picture while im runnin, which happily took, the setting between the 4 and 6k. Nice trees, very calm area of town, which is the settings I love to run in. At one point, Jane was way way behind us, maybe 5-10 min or so. And this amazed me !… Chris got back and ran w! ith Jane for a few minutes and hooked her up with 2 ladies with whom she finished the race with. I thought this was Sooo nice of Chris to do !!! and as I did with my other races, all that were ‘walking’ I encouraged and said RUN RUN RUN… cmon you can do this !!! lets go !!! etc…this is just the way I am.. ;-)))
at the 7th k mark the wind just literally blew at us… I was aiming for a 1:05:xx finish but I thought I will finish less than 1:10:xx and that was my goal !!! 2nd water stop at 7k so that was nice too. So the last street corner we were turning, I was the finish line.. WHAT A SIGHT FOR SORE LEGS Lmao !!! hhahah.. didn’t have sore legs at all.. just a figure of speech -))) so I didn’t blast too much but sprinted to some extent… and a few meters before the finish line, Chris was waiting for me, I gave him my camera and he took a shot… a bit blury it is but its allright…. Then I wanted to take one of Jane which was about 10 min. away or so.. so I waited up for her.. took a pic of her and her 2 lady friends Chris hook her up with at about the 5k mark.. so that’s it.. I finished in 1:08:02 : -)) yeah… almost 5 min less than my 10k at Mount Royal.. which was 1:12:51..
Weird how my knees DURING the race DID NOT bother me at all !!!! and b4 and after.. I feel them more !!! I find this strange but Chris told me its cuz my muscles aremore relaxed, etc.. which I think might beright cuz when I went to my doc last week she told me my muscles were a bit tight…..
Jane, Chris and Lucie at the 10K finish line!Anyways, this is it for my race report.. pics are in the CTS picture folder .. I created a folder for each race I ran…
Enjoy : -)
Lucie
Followup from Lucie...
Date: Sat Oct 26, 2002
Subject: OCT. 13/2002 TORONTO 10K TIME RECTIFICATION WEEEEEEEE LOLOk..check out # 661.... didn't i say my 10k time was 1:08:02 for my Toronto 10k ??? and the
official results are: 1:06:59.8... didnt i mention my watch stopped at 1:8:02 ???... or was it me that let it run for 2 sec. extra ??? so if this 1:06:59 time is correct.. which it is LOL... then this means i did this 10k 6 min. faster than my 10k in Montreal ?????? Weeeeehooooooooo LOL...Just thought id mention my discovery lol
Lucie who is going to get breaky now and then off for an 8k -10k LDS run in the rain :-))
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