Today Mitch, Tess, Tracy and I got up to run the annual Mamaroneck Turkey Trot. Today, however the race temperature was unusually frosty...probably in the high 20's at the start.
Mitch ran the kids one-mile run and did great and finished with an 8:30. I ran the 5-miler (as a bandit) in a near PR at 34:40. Amazingly, it was exactly 4 minutes faster than the Rye Derby!! That's a big difference for a short race! It was the first race that I've run since Reach the Beach and today reminded my why I love running races. This is a great course through Orienta and back along BPR and the crowd is decent, but quickly thins out so runners can run their races.
I think I'll run another race in December up in Ward Pound Ridge which is usually a wet and damp race that DB and Stanton ran last year in a blizzard.
Also running today were the Alter boys and Timmy Kelley (who came in 6th at 6:30) and in the big run Dave Burgess and Matt Lewis.
BTW--this picture is not from the race, but I had to post something.
