Silks and Satins 5K race report!
Hey, look! I ran in a race! :D
This morning I met up with Lara and Ed for the Silks and Satins 5K in Saratoga. It was wonderful to see Lara again and to finally meet Ed, which was odd because I never met him while we both lived in Michigan, then I move to NY and here he is. Weird. Lara conned some guys into taking our sweaty pics at the end so she will have to post them.
Let me say what a GREAT race this is. The course is flat like a frying pan. I mean nothing. Not a bump. If you hate hills, this is your race. I’m not kidding. The race starts and finishes near the entrance to the horse race track and I got to watch horses on the training track next to where I parked.
I met up with Ed and Lara at the registration desk and we walked down to the start line. Now here was something I hadn’t seen before. The coral signs started at 4:30/mile. 4:30. I almost died. I saw the 4:30 and couldn’t figure what the heck that sign was for. Then you look around and see all the 18 year-old kids bounding up and down the road warming up. The front line of that race looked the front of the NYC marathon. Damn those kids are fast.
The race was pretty good. The nice flat course was kind to me and I got to go faster than I really expected. I was pleased to see that I beat my post-pneumonia 5K time from last year by 7 seconds. So at least I run faster than I would if I had pneumonia. But it was hot! I think it was easily in the 80’s by the time we finished and the humidity was dreadful.
They had chip timing for this but it was a real race in the sense that your start time is gun time. So if you want to PR officially, you need to be close to the front or you lose time getting there. We were at the back and it took about 1.5 minutes to get to the start. Ofcourse, being near the front might feel strange standing near the gazelles. Next year we are standing there to see their reaction. So much fun to tease the kiddies. :)
Oh and the food. The food was great! They had bananas, garlic and blueberry and plain bagels, these GIANT mega-muffins with big sugar crystals on top that came in all kinds of flavors, and pastry things, and orange slices, and even coffee. I only had three of the muffins so I didn’t make a pig of myself. The goody bags were really cool because I NEVER get anything good. We got M&M’s, a granola bar, gum things, cookie/brownie things, a package of brown rice, toothpaste, a tube of GE silicone sealant (mold resistant!), a coupon for a free ice cream cone at Stewart’s, a free entry pass to the grandstand area at the track, and utter cream. For your utters I guess.
What a really great race. Cool RBF folks, great food, and utter cream. It doesn’t get any better than this. :)
July 29th, 2006 19:23
Cool!! That totally makes me want to race! I’m glad you didn’t get a PW!
July 29th, 2006 19:36
You’rrrrrrrrrre Back! Glad you had a good one. Put the utter cream on you hands please!
July 29th, 2006 21:53
Bring your utter cream to work and give it to the secrataries. Tell it’s for their beautiful utters. that will totally win them over.
July 30th, 2006 10:09
Great job!! The goodie bag sounds great. I can’t imagine a 4.30 mile. That’s ridiculous!!
July 30th, 2006 11:06
Food and goodies are better in New York State. There’s a reason to be happy you moved. Glad to see you’re racing again.
July 30th, 2006 13:18
Good stuff Jon. I hope to see my grand daughter in that 4:30 corral someday. *grin*
July 30th, 2006 15:11
I believe it is actually udders, being the farm girl I am, I know alittle something about udders and their needs. Great race and what an awesome gift bag, I would run the race just for the bag, the bag of candy not the cow’s bag that is! Glad to see you are flexible in your dieting that you can enjoy yourself after the race!
July 31st, 2006 07:23
Jon - back in racing mode, way to go! Enjoy the victory of finishing a race, the joy of doing it with RBFers and not to forget the goodies!
July 31st, 2006 08:22
Great race! Sounds like fun. :)
July 31st, 2006 10:39
Congrats Jon!
Sounds like a great race.
July 31st, 2006 14:27
i love me some big muffins.
must have been a big race for the local high schools for them to have corals at a 5k. don’t the kids get to race enough during school? can’t they take the summer off and let us slower folks win something for a change? dagnabit. young whippersnappers. better not catch ‘em pickin’ my peaches. i got me a rifle with rocksalt, dontchaknow!
July 31st, 2006 14:39
There you go - back in the saddle! Sounds like a fun morning.
July 31st, 2006 21:25
Dude! There was NO UDDER CREAM in my goody bag.
So. Not. Fair.
August 1st, 2006 01:21
lol was the udder cream for chaffed teets, laffs,, I am so glad you had a fun race,, and what a great goodie bag!!!
August 1st, 2006 21:13
Jon - what udder cream? I didn’t get that in my bag???!!! We watched The Water Boy that night and thought of you when the Cajun farmer coach was, hmmmm, moving like you would if your were self-applying udder cream! I got robbed! So good to finally meet you buddy! Great run.
August 1st, 2006 21:26
what an utterly good recap! glad you had such a great time, she uttered.
:)