The DRC Breakfast Bash 5 Mile

On Saturday September 3rd, I ran in the DRC Breakfast Bash 5 mile at Winfrey Point in White Rock Lake at Dallas, TX. The race and breakfast was free to Dallas Running Club members.  Non-members had to pay $10.00 to register and another $5.00 for breakfast. In addition to the 5 mile event, they also had a kid's 1K race that started at about 9:00 AM. There were 832 DRC members pre registered for this race.    The featured charity was Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA), a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization dedicated to finding the cure for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.  Specifically, the DRC supported the CCFA's Team Challenge, which is their endurance training and fundraising program that enables people to train for a half marathon, triathlon, or cycling event while helping to find a cure for those two horrible diseases.   The good news is that after over 2 years my youngest son, who helps me type up this blog and adds the pictures, has found full time work again. The bad news is that his time is limited, so I'm going to try to shorten these posts up a bit. I will keep doing most of the same things, but will try to condense my posts.   For some reason, my Garmin timing device would not record right at this event. Unfortunately, this means that I don't have any mile or pace times. Like all DRC races, Run-On! furnishes the chip timer for each runner free of charge. Their race team does a great job at each race. Thank you Run-On! for your support of the DRC.   I took a lot of pictures before the race. When it got closer to the starting time for the 5 mile, I lined up about 12 rows back. Usually, in a 5K, I run all-out from start to finish. But this was a 5 mile race, and it was a hot morning, and I had to slow my pace during the first half of the race. After the turnaround I started to run a little faster.   When I got to the point where there was only 1/2 mile left, I gave what I had left and finished in the time of 41:12, an 8:15 /mile pace. I finished 134 out of 648 finishers, but there were about 81 finishers in the Clydsdale / Athena division, which is separate from overall total.   To compare, last year my time in this race was 48:00, a 6:48 difference in 1 year.   Also, see the attached .pdf that shows the remaining free prostate cancer screenings in 2011.   Place   Bib#     Overall     Chip Time     Gun Time      Pace  7/23     765     134/648     41:12:00         41:15       8:15 / M I run to raise awareness for prostate cancer and to benefit my community. www.runningforacause.tumblr.com