A victory cup
After Saturday’s Peaks of Otter Christmas Classic, I didn’t hang out for long. After being out in the cold for a while, my son was ready to go home. I ended up missing some exciting news though — an age group award.
My official time of 22:53 put me 3rd in my age group, which was really surprising considering the top 3 in my age group last year had finishes of 20 minutes or better. So I’d like to thank all the REALLY fast guys 30-34 for staying home Saturday.
My award was the coffee cup above; the inset photo is me and my son showing off our awards — he ended up getting a medal for his race.
I ended up being 60th out of 369 finishers, the largest Christmas Classic ever. My official time puts me at 1:41 better than my previous time from two years ago when I was 100th out of 322.
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Nicely done and great looking cup! I noticed… if we would have been racing together, you would have beaten me by a mere 4 seconds! Maybe we'll get a chance to race together someday!
I was all alone at the end - the person in front of me was 6 secondsahead; the person behind was 17 seconds behind. The long gradualuphill finish - a little more than a quarter mile - really separatedeveryone. Hope we can do the same race sometime - my in-laws are innortheast Ohio (Cortland to be specific, just north of Youngstown), soI'm due for a big race there sometime.
Great job, David! Congrats on the age-group finish!
Congratulations! That sounds like a great Christmas time race…are you planning on doing the Jingle Bell 5k in Roanoke this weekend?
Yes, I'll be doing the Roanoke race. My plan is to pace a couple of co-workers and not worry about my time. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Trying to read that cup makes me feel drunk, but congratulations on the age group placing! That's a life-long goal for me, I'm thinking when I turn 50 or 60 I'm good.
Nice work! Congrats!!!
Sweet!! I now have 2 Christmas Classic AG cups! Really hoping to add another one next year