August 28: Northeast Harbor 5-miler

A very pretty course and a well-run race with gobs of raffle prizes.  You could tell there was a lot of local pride involved in this 33-year-old event.

Alan:      109th place (out of 146), 52:23, 10:29 pace

Nancy:   115th place, 56:54, 11:23 pace

For comparison, Alan's pace for the 10k we did back in June was 11:16, and mine was 12:47.  And, unlike the Flamingo 4-miler, I wasn't vying for last place.  A pretty nice improvement.

Once again we neglected to take pre- or post-race pix of each other (really, you should thank us), so here's the finish line right before they dismantled it.  The guy in the red shirt is a high school classmate of mine, Ryan, who we keep bumping into at these events.  He seems to be the race timing guy extraordinaire. 

After this, we drove into Bar Harbor to run some more!  We attempted to run the first big hill of the Half (West St, from Rte 3 up to Duck Brook Bridge), but Alan took a turn he thought was right, but I knew immediately was wrong, but he was too far ahead to hear me so I flailed after him for a while.  He eventually figured out he wasn't in the right place and just elected to keep going anyway.  We ended up back on Rte 3 and ran to the hotel we're staying at in September and then back to our car.  It was hot and we were tired so it was not a fun time, but it gave us an extra 2.47 miles on top of the 5 mile race. 

We had lunch at Little Notch in SW Harbor and then relaxed at Echo Lake before coming home to have a nice family dinner with the kids and Nana Mary.

I mean, SAINT Mary.  I call her that anyway, but she really proved it once again yesterday.  Not only did she arrive Friday night so we could go unencumbered to the Folk Festival (didn't happen: that's another post) and then do our running thing all day Saturday, but she even picked up our friend Stacy from the hospital AND took her to Target AND took her to Wendy's AND delivered her home safe and sound.  She's just that kind of lady, my mom-in-law.