Rita's Uncle who is 69 has been trying to hook up for a 5K with me for a couple of months. He called after finding out about the run that Carrollton Runners put on each month. He lives in Fort Worth and drove all the way here just so we could run together. Sunday morning I show up at the park and wait for him, but he does not show up. I start without him and run an 8 minute mile for the first mile then I see an older guy coming up the road (it was and out and back course). Sure enought it's Uncle Juris (Rita's family is from Latvia, in fact she is first gerneration American) with his head down just running along. I turn around and we run the rest of the 5K together. We run along talking about running, the birds chirping and the reflection of the trees on the water. He has broken his pace down to seconds per yard - he thought we were doing about 2 1/4 yards per second. We had a nice run. Juris won a trophy for second place. You guessed it - 2 in his age group.
My time 55:25
Juris' time 44:15
Later coffee and bagels at our house.
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Sir-are you saying you did a 5k-3.1 miles in 55 minutes? Maybe 2 5ks?
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