St. Patty's 10K

A week has flown by and I have a lot to report on. I passed the time two weekends ago not running in Gate River Run but training instead. This past week I racked in some more mileage then normal-14 miles-in anticipation of placing for the St. Patty's 10K in Evergreen Cemetary. But to start off from the beginning of the week. My dad claimed to get faster I would need to train more. And so with a weekend off I managed to squeeze out a mere 14 miles but all the while fighting a tough cold. The week past by awaiting the 10K in hopes of gaining some ground with a top 3 performance. I awoke early on a humid Sunday morning. Lucky for me the venue was a shady Evergreen Cemetary. We hit the road and once we got to downtown Jacksonville got lost with the "piece of shit directions"-in the words of my dad. We drove threw every slum there is to Jacksonville. We almost had to resort to asking directions from people walking the streets. But with a little improvisation we arrived at the cemetary with 20 minutes to spare. The lines at the John were long so we went in the comfort of the wild-all the while probaly peeing on someones grave. The 10K had a companion 5K which both started at the same time. My dad and I were towards the front but stuck behind two overweight ladies who wern't fast. The course was two loops for the 10K of the Evergreen Cemetary on a small interwinding road. My dad pulled ahead of me in mile 2 but was disatisfied with his overall time since he didn't shave any seconds off his PR for Jacksonville. His finishing time was 46:38. Mine was 49:41. I thought I did decent for my first 10K and earned myself a third place finish, my first big finish in a bigger race. After the race we waited a long time for the awards and when they were about to be announced it turned out to be that the computer had the results but couldn't print them therefore leaving my dad to pick up two awards at the Baymeadows store (the other award was Nocatee 5K which needed two weeks to be personalized). There won't be any posts coming up soon on races because I am going on a temporary race hiatus for two weeks. Although I will post a picture of the "shrine" once the new plaques are set forth for me to hang. So long and keep running!