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Monday, November 3, 2008

Boy, Was I Surprised??

I have never been so surprised to learn that I had placed in the Food World Senior Bowl Run in Mobile, AL., on Saturday, Nov. 1. There were over 5,000 runners between 3 races and the 5k was heavily participated in. Then as they were giving out the awards, I found out that I had not "placed" in my age group (like I thought) but had become 1 of 9 recipients to win overall!! What an honor! Here are a couple of pictures of me holding my award then a close up of the award. It is very nice and beautifully engraved. My time was 26:42. Everything was perfect: the weather, my new clothing and new running shoes. This will probably never happen again; but I am excited now and want to share this with my friends!


Now, the beautiful award ... (sorry about my reflection; it's the best pic I could get)

Kent did well, too, running a better time than he had in quite some time. He came in 4th place in his age group.

2 comments:

Gretchen Clark said...

thanks for visiting my blog! and leaving some card love;D

jeff and rebecca said...

Wow! How exciting! Isn't it fun to win anything? Especially something like a run that you had to work so hard to do. That is wonderful. Guess what? I put a bid on some cowboy boots for next weekend. I am so pumped about all of that too. We are going to have such fun. Do you have any western wear? I may go in search of something this weekend. See you tomorrow night!

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