Indianapolis Mini Marathon 2004
Ran the Indy Mini Marathon this morning on a gorgeous sunny May day. Eighty plus degrees, and not a cloud in the sky. For once I managed to pace myself well, and I ran a pretty steady race averaging 7:38 min/mile with a decent kick at the end of a fast last mile. My hand-stopped time was 1:40:11, and the results page, which surprisingly is up a few hours after the race is over, has me at 1:40:12. Quite happy with that.

I should stress that this race is really well organised. Tons of bands along the route, lots of spectators, lots of water stations, and supposedly 30,000 runners registered. The lap on the Indy 500 tracks was somewhat silly -- no wind at all, and hot. Incidentally, that was my slowest mile split. Overall, it was bit excessive to drive 190 miles each way just to run 13.1 miles, but heck, with the weather that nice, it was a fine day off.

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