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This past weekend was my best running weekend in a while.  7 miles at Lady Bird Saturday morning and 10 miles yesterday that included my very first Cap 10k.  That was also my first road 10k since the Runtex series during the fall of '98 when I was getting ready for my first marathon.

I almost didn't run yesterday though.  My boss paid for and planned to run the 10k but something came up and he wasn't going to be able to do it so he asked if I'd like to do it.  I though about it for a few minutes and thought that it might be fun and I could be a freak and add some mileage onto it by running from our office.  I  knew I could avoid a bunch of parking issues by running from the office.

However, Saturday evening we joined some friends at the Iron Cactus for a birthday dinner and along with a few beers didn't get home till pretty late.  As we were going to bed I was rationalizing and justifying not running the next morning.  We are way behind on interior paint, mostly due to not being happy with paint samples, so I was using that as justification for not running.  I wouldn't feel much like doing anything until at least noon or 1 after resting a while.  So, I went to bed planning on not running.  I woke up at 615 after some pretty solid sleep and realized if I got up right now I could still make the run.  So I quickly got busy gathering everything and made it down to the sea of people in plenty of time.

I was lined up about midway in the throng of 17,500 runners.  It took me 7:15 to reach the start after the gun sounded.  I started off easy not really caring about my time but after I got warmed up breaking the 60 minute mark did enter my mind a bit.  In the 2nd mile I walked a bit up Enfield and then the Aggie Corps running in formation caught me.  As it turned out I stayed close to them for most of the rest of the race.  With less than half a mile to go the Aggies past me again.  I decided I couldn't let the Aggies finish ahead of me so I turned on the jets and finished ahead of them!!