May 26 - 27, 2002 Flo-Jo Memorial Half Marathon
(13.1 road miles in Laguna Niguel on Memorial Day
The Flo-Jo memorial two day event featured an assortment of races. On Sunday may 26th they held the Diaper Dash for kids up to 3 years old. They would line up 6 at a time and run 75 feet. More cameras for this event than anything else out there!
Sierra - are you ready to RACE? Here is Sierra after the race with her medal. Every kid got a medal and a coupon for a meal at Ruby's restaurant! Some of the little ones were just learning to walk and had to hold their parents hand for the whole distance. Very cute.
Was that fun? Monday May 27th (Memorial Day) was the BIG event. A 13.1 mile Half Marathon that Michelle and I both entered. Lots of up and down hills. Nothing more than a few hundred feet, but it sure gets to you after a while - whew! Michelle came in 6th out of 130 woman in her 30 to 35 age bracket! The top 4%. Awesome! Her time was 1:42:16. This is a 7 minutes 49 seconds per mile pace! She was 42nd out of 689 women runners (top 6%) and was 198th overall out of 1384 men and woman finishers (top 14%).
Doug came in 5th out of 21 men running in the 60 to 65 age bracket which got him on the online top 5 winner's in each age category results list. His time was 1:56:18 - an average pace of 8 minutes 52 seconds per mile. He was number 367 out of 695 men (53%) and 515 out of 1384 finishers (37.2%). At his age of 63 his calculated max heart rate is 157. His heart monitor showed he was above that for the last 45 minutes. Speeding it up for the last half mile he got it up to 174 (the max heart rate of the "average" 46 year old). No big deal.
(As in the Diaper dash - everyone got a finisher's medal. However, Sierra's medal was much BIGGER than ours!)
