Dahlgren 50k Results
| August 6, 2012 | Posted by Emily under Uncategorized |
Good morning. Happy Monday, everyone. Please forgive any grammatical errors or lack of coherent thought in the next few sentences. I’m dragging a bit after waking up in the 4 o’clock hour, for the third morning in a row, so my mom could run the monuments in the dark, before heading back to Vermont.
The original plan to run the monuments at night got scrapped when we decided a cold beer and DC’s best cupcakes sounded like a better way to end the day.
And we were right.
Before all of the monument gazing and cupcake eating, I spent Saturday enjoying one of my favorite races ever.
And I’m not talking about the men’s 10,000 on Saturday afternoon…although, holy shit, can we pause to talk about that for a second?
Or just stare at pictures of these two over and over and smile inside and out about the significance of this race and their remarkable display of friendship in the heat of competition. Big. Sigh.
Before Galen and Mo took to the track on Saturday afternoon, I took to the trails and raced the Dahlgren 50k in Virginia.
And it turned out to be a pretty crazy good time. So hot that my tank was practically hanging to my knees with sweat by the end of the race, but 31.9 miles of solid fun and running.
1st Woman
6th overall
4:20.50 for 31.9 miles*, an 8:10 pace.
Broke the course record (for women)
*31.9 miles=the actual distance of the race course (.9 more than 50 kilometers, which was NOT garmin distance, but the publicized distance of the race, which I did not find out about until after crossing the finish line. apparently this is an ultra thing that my road brain is late to pick up.)
SEE.
Full race report to come (I was too busy entertaining my mom and wringing out my race gear this weekend) ASAP.
Congratulations! Did you win a box of those swiss rolls?
congrats on a great run!
Awesome job Emily!! You’re the speediest of them all!
Go Emily! You’re the speediest (and sweatiest) of them all!
Congrats on the awesome race win & new course record!!
I LOVE BAKED AND WIRED. And congrats! You are totally amazing and inspirational!
Please tell me that the boxes of Swiss Miss Rolls were also handed out as prizes! <3
You are a badass!! I think you may have found your calling. Ultra Woman!!
Congrats on the course record! That’s freaking amazing!
AWESOME time! Congrats on the race!
I can’t even run a 5k at that pace! HOLY SMOKES – CONGRATS!! Your hard work is paying off! Keep it up!
You’re so cool. Congratulations!
Awesome Emily! Great job!
Holy Crap! breaking course records!
Wow, really nice race and you must be so proud for finishing first and breaking the course record. Did the give you a prize?
You broke the course record!!! WOW!!! You are amazing!!! I actually know the guy who handed out your award :)
You are incredible!! Your pace is amazing, and a course record?! Congrats!!
Congrats!
Speechless. Congratulations, that’s amazing.
Great job, Emily!
As a Brit and a huge fan of Mo Farah, I was thrilled to see Galen Rupp charge into second place behind Farah – what a race!
Congrats on your race too – awesome to break the course record.
WOW 1st Place and a course record. You are a speed demon!
I love the Galen and Mo train together, couldn’t have been a better result for them!
OMG!!!! You did it! And in style! Congrats! *hugz*
Holy sh*t! Congrats!
Holy crap you are on fire! You are so impressive Emily!
Congratulations on an awesome race! You’re a rockstar, and seriously impressive!
wow, that is incredible! awesome job. that is a LOT of running.
I like this post for 3 reasons.
1. Baked & Wired is undeniably the best place for cupcakes in this city and every time I see a pink box I shake my head in disbelief.
2. I loved watching Mo and Galen being the amazing badasses that they are.
3. HOLY AMAZING RACE!!!! I am majorly impressed. Congrats on the big win!
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