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Race Result

Racer: Fabrice Guillaume
Race: Herndon Turkey Trot
Date: Saturday, November 17, 2007
Location: Herndon, VA
Race Type: Run - 5 km
Age Group: Male 30 - 34
Time: 0:19:26
Overall Place: 35 / 622
Age Group Place: 4 / 56
Comment: Lost my shoe at the start - 1mn penalty...



Race Report:



I wanted to see how was my run after my first Tri season compared to before. I had done a local 5K race in Reston in spring before the season in 19:20.

The mass start did not help me there. Someone stepped on my right shoe and I lost it. I had to stop and wait for everybody to pass me. Funny thing was after everybody was gone, I could still not find my shoe, people were laughing around me... A policeman finally brought me back my shoe. Based on my split time, I lost about 1 minute there.
Bad start... Anyway no big deal I thought. Let's pass as many people as possible.

I pushed hard and kept a decent pace.
In the end, I finished close to my spring time (19:26 v 19:20) despite the bad start.

And I passed over 580 persons in less than 20mn.
Quite fun actually :)

Fabrice