Race in St. Augustine

Last weekend, Brent and I ran a race in Saint Augustine. It was roughly a 10k but it was completely different than a typical race because you were given a set of clues at the beginning of the race that hinted to various checkpoint locations (kind of like a mini amazing race). We had to take our picture at each checkpoint so they could verify at the finish line that you did everything you were supposed to, otherwise they would enforce 20 minute penalties per mistake. The winners won $500 cash.

I am pretty competitive and when there is a prize involved, my pupils dilate and I have to win. I thought that especially since I'd been spinning a couple times a week, for well over a month, that I'd be in pretty good shape; and since neither of us had been to St. Augustine before, we went down the day before to scope out the town. We took an historic trolley ride that we thought might help us get a foot up on the competition. It was a pretty cute town (the oldest one in the country) and we even stopped at the Fountain of Youth to drink it's stankonia fart smelling water so we can live forever.

The race was hard and we sucked it up. The people with iphones had the biggest advantage and since we didn't have one, we ended up missing a couple of the checkpoints and basically ran the whole course twice. Thank goodness for my 'phone a friend' uncle or we wouldn't have made it at all! We did finish (albeit in the bottom 10 - 'Big Hizzle & Twizzle) and even gotten beaten by a 6 year old and her father which totally boosted our egos. I couldn't walk for two days because my hams were so shredded. It was really fun though!