Ran the 2023 TriSpan 10k this morning in downtown Wilmington. This is my runiversary race as it was the first race I ever ran in (I did the 5k option that year). It’s usually hot and muggy even at 7am. But the crowd and the views are amazing.
2023 Cupid’s Crawl 10K
FAIR WARNING…injury pics ahead if you click the Read More button below. I signed up for Cupid’s Crawl 10k. This morning temps were perfect. I was having a decent race, not my fastest, but I was doing this for fun.
At nearly the halfway point however, I had just turned left where the 10k splits off from the 5k course and heading downhill. I was speeding up and as I was passing a lady on her left I smiled and said, “Free speed!” About that time my shoe caught a spot of broken pavement and I went straight down, right knee and right hand first sliding about two feet on pavement. Talk about pain!! That kind lady and another kind runner stopped to check on me and helped me out of the road as a race volunteer rushed over and called an ambulance. I was bleeding pretty bad. Another volunteer who knows how runners think and took injury pics saying, “You’ll want these later.” She called my wife to update her and texted her the pics.
So… 8 years into running and I got my first DNF. Almost had a 5k anyway. Thank you to the EMS guys that cleaned me up and my buddy Gary Lee for bringing me home. Now I just got to heal up. Between the burning, stinging, and soreness I’m just gonna take it easy a day or two!
2021 Tri-Span 10k
So proud of this woman!! Lisa ultimately just wanted to beat her training time of an hour and a half for this 10k. The TriSpan 10k is the toughest 10k I’ve ever ran as the course includes 3 bridges, 2 of which are draw bridges with the tough metal grating to run on. Each bridge is like a long hill. And then there’s the heat and humidity as you run on both sides of the Cape Fear river in downtown Wilmington. This strong woman beat her ultimate goal and set a new PR for 10k distance in her first ever 10k race by finishing it in 1 hour and 20 minutes!! That’s ten minutes faster than any of her training runs.
2020 Johnston Health Champions Virtual 10K
Wow! What a day! You’re looking at two guys that just both PR’d!! Yep! We’re even ringing the bells to prove it (virtually of course)!😎. My coach and friend @jim_burrows_runs agreed to meet me as we both had a virtual 10K planned for today. We both wanted to get a new PR. We did socially distance.
2019 Tri-Span 10K
Well my 5th Tri-Span Race is now in the books. It has got to be the most challenging 10K course I’ve ever run due to the heat, humidity and hills (it crosses three bridges and the 2nd one is the toughest). Their description on their race page says in part “You know it’s going to be HOT so take the challenge with the humidity, heat, and hills of Wilmington!” They aren’t kidding. It’s been HOT every year. It was around 78* at the start at 7:05am and in the mid 80s by the time I finished. (See pic of my brother Chris and I turning to the finish after ascending the hill. We had both shed our shirts on the second bridge😂).
2018 Trophy Trot
Had an awesome time at the 2018 Trophy Trot 10k in Raleigh on Thanksgiving Day! It was a chilly 34 degrees at the start but there was a great turn out and I even saw a turkey! 🙂