Sunday, March 13

Running the St. Patrick's Day 8K in DC

Today, I ran the St. Patrick's Day 8K in Washington, D.C.  I came in 861st out of a total of 5,543 runners.  I came in at 653rd out of 2,367 men.  I came in 71st out of the 246 men in my age bracket (45-49).  I finished the 8K (5 miles) in 39 minutes and 31 seconds, which works out to a 7 minute, 57 second per mile average.  I was pretty happy with my result.  It had been a while since I ran in a race and the 8K was a good distance for me.  The weather was perfect and it was a fun race with bagpipe players around the course and adorable little girls doing jigs at the finish line.  More pics to come.




2 comments:

Sara said...

Aw! Way to go, Mark! That's an awesome time!

Greg said...

Nice work running and finishing the race!