Someone should do a race report, and it should mention the following facts:
1) The race was shortened to a 5K due to the heat, even though many of us can remember running it as a 10K in much hotter weather. So our litigation-wary culture loses 5K multiplied by countless lawyers' legs to skittishness.
2) The Covington team, even without Geoff (and it could easily have included Geoff if we had allowed registration by frequent users of the firm locker room, or if Geoff had merely agreed to run as my date), was the massive overall winner of the team competition this year, and will win the grand team prize of a laminated piece of paper. A far cry from the days when a charity fundraising race could give out a $5,000 grandfather's clock to a mega-law firm. Our average time for the four top runners was 17:18, and the next ranked team was 19 minutes flat. Admittedly, that did include an 18:27 from "Anne Feldman," a person who is unknown to any of us, but even if you include the well-known Sarah Burnham's extremely good 19:42, we would have won by a handy margin with a 17:37 average and would have had an all-Dojo or at least all-Dojo-and-Dojo-in-law scoring quartet. (With the hypothetical Geoff and the possibly-hypothetical Ms. Feldman we would have averaged 16:49.)
3) The following signicant times were run by Dojo members and honorary members:
Dave Burnham -- 15:34 (5:01 pace), fifth place overall and first in whatever "age group" you are in when you are 27, and just one second off of my self-timed world age-group record, set just two weeks ago on the Alter-G. The idea that someone can do that not suspended by a big air bubble is amazing.
Pru (kind of like Pre) -- 16:09, 9th place, second in that same age group, first lawyer overall.
King Geoff -- 17:05, 12th place, damn good for thinking minutes before the race that he was gearing up for a 10K.
Sarah Burnham -- 19:42, PR (at least post-college), second Burnham, fifth lawyer. That 6:21 pace is very fine, since her optimistic training pace for 10K was 6:30.
Pemberton -- 19:05, who pronounced it a decent fourth run since getting off the bike, out of the pool and away from the gravity-sheltered confines of the Alter-G. A distant second in the age group, but at least no injuries -- yet.
Reeves Westbrook -- 23:28, third in his age group (behind two 60+ year olds who beat Pemberton), looking good and finishing strong.
If I had a picture of a person eating blubber, or a bridge, I would post it here, but lacking those things, I will stop
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