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I ran the Bay to Breakers race this year. Dan and I signed up at the last minute so we were stuck in Corral E (walkers). This was the first race I’ve ever run (well at least since elementary school anyway), and the longest distance I’ve ever covered (sad, I know). So I was pretty nervous about it.

I didn’t sleep more than a couple of hours last night, both because of the jitters and also because it was way too hot in my room and I still haven’t brought my stupid air conditioner home; it’s just sitting there taking up a huge amount of space in my office. And of course on race day it was dumb hot.

Given those circumstances (actually I’ve got a bunch more excuses but they’re even more lame) as well as the fact that Dan, bless him, convinced me that I needed to run the entire race wearing strap-on butterfly wings and bobbing golf ball antennae, I was pretty happy with my finish. According to the RFID tag I had on my shoe, my final time was 1:11:25, for a pace of 9:35.

Of course, Dan deserves most of the credit, since he stuck with me and pretty much pulled me through the whole thing. He finally took off at around 6.5 miles and managed to smoke some non-costumed clown in a foot race to the finish.