Furusado Ekiden results

Team: 1:10:23, 12th out of 24 for a total of 16.6km.

Slower than 3A boys, 3B boys, fire department, 2A boys, Takabashi-cho (area of Nakayama), another area that I can't read, 1A boys, elementary track and field, 1B boys, 1st year girls (what!?), and 2S boys (mixed boys from 2A and 2B).

Individual: 5th out of 18, 10:55 (3.1km)

Damn! A full minute faster than what I expected. It must've been the decline. Only slower than Takashi's 10:16 (2A ekiden/long jump), Kenta's 9:48 (2B ekiden, everyone else seem to call him Yama during basketball--the worst cherry picker), Masaru's 10:09 (3A ekiden), and some guy from Takabashi's 9:08. Couldn't compare the time to girls or elementary school kids because they run a course with shorter legs and more runners.

Additional:

I was almost dead on with the previous estimate of placements. I started at 22nd spot, ahead of only 3A girls and 1A boys. I finished at 15th place, moved our team up 8 spots.

Thoughts:

Not bad for just a month of training. 10:55 for 3.1km, that's a 5:40 mile clip. If I can keep this pace for 1.9 more km, that's a 17:37 5k, well ahead of Goerge...

So run Dubya! Run! Tell all the other curs the law's coming! You tell them I'm coming, and hell's coming with me, you hear?! Hell's coming with me!