st pats dash

so this race went quite well i must say! we ran it in 2006 when sirus was itty bitty and he and seamus were in the stroller. we were untimed but i think we did it in 33 minutes. i can't remember in 1998 but i am looking for the results.
this year i did a little warm up. they were almost 20 minutes late in getting the race going. they kept telling people to get off the front line if they couldn't hold a sub 6 minute pace and they kept saying that they would come down there and ask people individually if they didn't seed themselves properly. i found this interesting. then the one time, they said that the front line was for all the "good" people, which i thought was an interesting way to put it. then the race was off. it was chilly but i had taken some layers off which i am glad that i did. the first mile was more uphill then i expected or remembered. it wasn't hilly by any means, just not necessarily flat. i got to the 2 mile mark in 13:51 which for me is pretty darn fast, thats a 6:55 pace. I didn't feel like i was going that fast, but i guess i was. either that or their sign was off. they didn't have a 3 mile mark, but i remember where it was on the map aproximately. i had slowed down quite a bit. my lungs weren't hurting, they just weren't feeling like they were able to expand, as though my sports bra was 10 times too tight. i had a little panic and thought about walking but knew that at this point stopping to walk would be more uncomfortable then just slowing down a little bit. once off the viaduct, it was down and around the block. i didn't have it in me to sprint. then i saw eric and the kids and i kept running at least. i tried to pick it up, but couldn't i could see the clock, and the time on my watch when i finished was 25:20. i couldn't remember if that was about the time i was expecting to come in or hoping to come in. but i was happy. it meant that i did the last 1.5miles in 11:29, or a 7:39 pace. but, although all the borchures say nearly 3.5, the map says 3.58, so that would put that last 1.5 at 7:16. I didn't feel like i had dropped that much slower, but who knows. what i do know is that in a matter of just a minute or two once done i felt recovered and was able to walk 4 blocks carrying a 40+ pound seamus. all in all the pace of this race was faster then the seafair torchlight run so i was pretty hawppy about that. results have me at 25:38 but I am pretty sure that is gun time still and i am going to stick with my watch time. my watch couldn't be off by that far. results do have me 18th in my agegroup out of 753, and 110 out of 4382 womens. not too bad!