Rating

Somehow I'm not surprised.

More race results

After yesterday's post, I spent the afternoon with an awful headache and didn't get much done... but I think Laura and I are going to try and keep it up, and possibly sign up for another race later this summer. The complete and official race results are posted here.

By way of summary, Laura and I actually came in at 35:37 and 35:38, respectively, making us the 24th and 25th finishers in Women age 20-24... and they only list through 25th place in that category in the "Age Group Awards" page, so we were last in our division. Overall, that was good enough for 840th and 841st overall out of 914 runners, and 363rd and 364th in Women out of 405 competitors.

It's a start. We'll be better next year!

42

... was the number safety-pinned to my shirt. We took off in the middle of the pack and came back in with apparently the "last big clump," according to my spectator-in-waiting. We stopped to walk twice, probably about half a mile in total, which leaves about 2.6 miles of actual running. Clock time at crossing the finish was 36:17, although I have to wait for them to tally the radiochip device on my shoe for the real duration.

I'm still alive.

I still hate running.

I think I would do it again.

I'm INTERNET FAMOUS

Okay, not really. But there is a vaguely embarrassing video interview from last year's Fulbright Academy of Science and Technology meeting in Berlin, where I gush unreservedly about how cool it is to live abroad and do AD research. It's here, and the video quality is rather over-compressed... at least, I hope I don't look that bug-eyed in real life. Also, I should email them about spelling my name right... sigh.

By way of follow-up to my last post, I'm officially in my new summer lab. And it's awesome so far on all counts, except of course the fact that scientific research in many fields, including mine, is in a funding drought. I'm doing my darndest to find a way to stay in this lab, though. We'll see...

The 5K I'm running is also this weekend, Sunday morning. I'll try to remember to post, if I survive.