Close Call

This morning I ventured over to Eagle to participate in the 10K connected with Flight Days. It was a fun small town atmosphere for a 10K. It reminded me of runs like In and Out of Luck and Syttendei Mai in Grantsburg. The publicity I had found said the run started at 7:30 a.m. So I got there around 6:45 a.m. so I could make sure I found where I needed to go and could get registered. As I was signing up I find out that the 5K starts at 7:30 a.m. and the 10K not until 8:15 a.m. Not so much of a problem except that worship starts at 9:30 a.m. here. I suppose maybe it was a good thing because I knew I had to run fast enough to finish, get home and shower, and still make it to worship. Luckily it all happened. Although, between the marathon last week and the return to elevation I was feeling it early and often. Somehow I managed to run my best 10K of the year, and the second half was only one second slower than the first half so that was kind of cool. I managed to get back and leave the house by 9:30 a.m., which much like in Nome that was just about perfect timing to get there when things were starting up. The biggest surprise came after church when I got a phone call from a member of the congregation who was at the race. It sounds like I may have even earned an age group medal. Who would have thunk it?