Note of Thanks

Thanks to Lee Scruggs and Donna Akers for organizing after the race get togethers. It has been a great way for members to get to know one another and share their race stories.

I committed the runner’s nightmare on Saturday (February 2009) at Blacksburg, Virginia in Blacksburg Classic.  The nightmare of missing your turning point in the race. I had always dreamed that this was going to happen to me, well Saturday it did!!! And to beat it all, I was in process of setting a new PR time for me.  “What a bummer,” but it’s kind of funny.  I was only a 1/10 of a mile away from the finish line when I missed my turning point, so it’s pretty funny if you think about it.  I could see the finish line, but wasn’t thinking.  I was following the runner in front of me and he was running the 10 miler.  After I missed my turn, I kept running and the whole time I’m thinking, “Man they really missed marked this course; this is way longer than a 5K, my time going to horrible.” And then I started thinking, maybe I signed up for the 5 miler.  So I kept running I didn’t realize I was running the wrong race until I made my second pass on the Huckleberry Trail.  I looked down at someone race number and realized I’m in the wrong race.  So I just decided to use it as a workout, I had done blew this one up.  I was mad when it happened, but I afterwards I just laughed it off.  This was my first time running the Blacksburg Classic, but I will go back again.  It’s just one of those things.

If you have any runners stories you want to share, please send to Vonda Wilson or Karen Gordon.