On Friday I was just minding my own business and wrapping up work for the week when my buddy (we’ll call him… Eric Phipps) busted in on IM and said:
Eric: I am running colder boulder this weekend. Are you?
Dave: nope. no run for me. didn’t even know about that. i could do it though
Eric: well if you do let me know – were having beers afterqwards probably at lazy dog on pearl streeet mall
What is the ColderBOLDER you ask? It’s the little brother of the BolderBOULDER 10k. A 5k race, this run is part of big brother’s race training series. Normally, the weather this time of year would be pretty chilly thus the Colder moniker, but this morning I found myself sitting at Buchanan’s Coffee Pub staring at gray skies and 52°F at 8am. Not bad.
The race course runs through and around the perimeter of the University of Colorado at Boulder and, like the 10k, is impeccably organized. I did a walk in registration with no problem. The race is run in waves according to your most recent 10k time, so you can go out and shoot for a official PR quite easily.
Now, I haven’t been running a ton lately; 3 days a week around my neighborhood 4.5mi loop plus pick-up soccer on Saturdays when the weather is nice, thus my expectations were for about a 25 min time. Where did I finish? 21:43. And I didn’t throw up (but it was close).
Afterwords, I rolled home to observe Julie and the kids trimming our Christmas tree , but that’s another story that’s probably never to be told.
