Running before the rodeo parade

Computer died, that's my excuse. This new one is still not up to speed.

There were five of us in the Rodeo Run past Saturday. How cool. DIL Fanny and I did the 10k. Son Kevin and daughters April and Deborah did 5k.

Yes Deborah was here from CA to be at the reunion surrounding the closing of the old Redeemer church building. That's another story. Maybe I'll cover that in another blog.

We preceded the rodeo parade. I did it last year. Did i know that last year? I can be truly out of it.

Anyway I wanted to do a 16 min/mile pace and did manage that. I noticed that I was second to last in my age group. But there were quite a few younger than me behind me when I finished. of course most everyone was well ahead of me.

Fanny finished in 11 min/mi.

Kevin did the 5k in something like 10.5 min/mi. April and Deborah did 13 min/mi 5k. That is walking for a young person, mostly.

Of course I mostly walked too and when I jogged it was pretty slowly.

I see from looking at past results that I have done closer to 15 min/mi several times. Even recently.

So next time I need to not let myself off the hook so easily.

I planned my parking very well. If I was by myself I would likely walk up and back, but I had the daughters. They did not like this idea. So i parked on the east side of I-59, on Bastrop. This made the walk to the starting line over a mile, across downtown. But the finish line was close by, actually on Bastrop maybe 8 blocks away.

So I planned it perfectly. The walk up gave us a light warm-up and the walk back was short because we would be tired.

Actually I do not think anyone was particularly tired at least in my group. We did not push any limits or get much out of breath.

But it was great fun and good exercise. I think I will do it again next year.