Comment by Phil

Phil — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:42:38 +0000

Quite respectable!

And maybe look for your race results to show up in Google searches on your name.

Two of my less-than-stellar sporting results showed up high in Google for a long time. But maybe that won't happen with you, if Google has gotten smarter about pushing those things down, and if there are many more people with your name.

Sailing Takes Me Away

Ken — Sat, 23 May 2009 20:24:11 +0000

So today was the Raleigh Skirt Chaser 5K race. I have not run in an actual race since, um, Christopher Cross was in the Billboard top 40. Yeah, I was like ten years old.

Also, until two days ago, I haven't even attempted to run 5 kilometers in years. I used to run two miles regularly, and four miles occasionally... but my running has suffered as of late. (By "suffered", I mean "I've run from the couch to the toilet, but not much more.") But I went ahead and signed up for the Skirt Chaser race at my friend Anna's behest, not really believing I could finish the race at all, much less do any better than a humiliating last-place.

But you know what? I finished. And while I didn't come close to catching the ridiculous Kenyan woman who finished in under 16 minutes, I managed a respectable 32:30 (approximately; the official results haven't been posted yet). So, yay me... maybe I'm not quite as hopelessly old and marshmallow-y as I'd feared.

A few photos will be up on Facebook in a day or two.