2009 Shamrock Shuffle 8K Race

So I ran the Shamrock Shuffle 8K (5-mile) race again this year. And the weather was just a little bit uncooperative. We got a late March snow storm Saturday night and it was still snowing Sunday morning. Big, fat, wet flakes of snow. On the ground it turned to slush. Needless to say, it made for an interesting run. Over 30,000 people signed up for the race. About 13,700 actually ran it. I was one of them. Here are a few pictures from the event.


Here's me before the race, walking from the parking garage to the race start area. It was so nasty, I had to actually do all my stretching in the garage.


Here's me just after the start of the race. Sabine came with me and took the pictures.


Here's me after the race back at the parking garage...soggier, colder, but feeling pretty good.


Here's a picture I found on Flickr that I downloaded. I don't think I'm in it, but it really shows how bad the day was.

In the end I ran it it 45:27 which was not as fast as last year. But I think if the weather had been better I would have beat my time.