Feel the Burn

The Mountain Goat Run, a 10-mile road race around Syracuse's big hills was this Sunday. As you can clearly see in the picture, I was in a world of hurt.



Christine was nice enough to take this right after Mile 8 going through Thornden Park near campus. Though I look like I'm in worst shape of the group, I was the first across the finish line. I finished in 1:09:35, which was about 10 minutes faster than expected considering my lack of running over the last 2 years. That was good enough for 109th place out of 1376 and 8th in my age group.

Of course, now it hurts to stand up, sit down, walk, go upstair, downstairs, and most other basic movements. To the victor go the spoils, eh?