We're here in Utah for Thanksgiving and two of my sons (Jacob, who is 18, and Sam, who is 13) agreed to run a 5K with me. We found this one in Draper and decided to do it. We knew it would be cold, and it really turned out to be pretty darn cold. The temperature while we were running went from 7.5° F all the way up to a blistering 9.5°F. I got the boys warm clothes to run in, but we hadn't brought any kind of face covering, so we stopped at Walmart on the way to the race and bought scarfs and better hat for Sam. Fortunately, the area where we waited for the start of the race was inside a mall. Because of that and because I was running with my boys, I didn't run any kind of warm up and I made no attempt to line up in a good spot. You had to pay extra to get a timing chip in this race, and I didn't do that. Besides all that, I am not in nearly as good of shape as I was a year ago, so I didn't run a terrifically fast race. There was a wave start and I think we made it across the start line a good 10 minutes after the official start of the race, so I'm reporting my time according to my Garmin.
We all started out together. The boys got a little ahead of me at first because they shot through a gap that then closed up and blocked me off, but I caught them a little while later. But then at about 3/4 mile into the race, Thing 3 and I looked around and realized we had lost Jacob. About a half mile after that, we were approaching a turn and Sam informed me that he was going to walk a bit at the turn and I should go on ahead, so I kept running and ran the rest of the race by myself. The race was relatively flat, flatter than what I usually run in Colorado. After I finished, I waited just outside the finish chute. Sam showed up about 3 minutes later, then he and I waited together, and then Jacob finally showed up about 7 minutes after that. We got some fruit and then headed back to Grandma's house. It was fun doing this race with my boys, even though we didn't run the whole way together. It was a fairly big race. There were over 3,000 runners. We one couple where the woman was dressed up as a turkey and the man was dressed up as a pilgrim. I saw another woman dressed up as a pilgrim. Mostly it was just people trying to stay warm, though I did see 2 or 3 people in shorts. So here are my splits: 9:35, 8:34, 8:23, 0.1 @ 8:37. I didn't dare sprint to the finish because the last bit was in the parking lot of the mall and it was kind of icy. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
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