Bridgeport Home Run

As always the Bridgeport Home Run was a fun 5K race. It is flat and fast and you can usually turn in a good time on it as a result. The weather was perfect with a bit of a tail wind on the way out to Seaside Park and a bit of a head wind on the way back into Harbor Yard.

I didn't expect much from my time since I have actually been training myself to run slower this year so I won't jump out fast on a mountain race and burn myself out. With that in mind, I finished okay with a time of 20:11. I placed 20th out of 425 runners and came in 6th in my division. The time was about 40 seconds slower than when I ran it last year but that was mostly expected. I was unhappy to finish over 20 minutes though so I will have to work a little harder next week at the Sprint for D.A.R.E. to break it.

My best fan (my wife Jan), was there to cheer me on and take a few pictures so I'll post a pciture of me running in the race wearing my shirt on my web site soon. Thanks for checking in! I'll write again after my race next weekend.