On March 3, 2012, I ran in the 8th annual Trinity River Levee Run 10k/5k and 1 mile fun run. It was held in West Dallas. The start/finish line was on Singleton Blvd.
The new Marget Hunt Hill Bridge was designed by Santiago Calatwaa. This race is one of the monthly races produced by the Dallas running running club and the Trinity Commons Foundation.
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawling handed out $300 each to the male and female 800 meter dash winners. The Dallas Fire/Rescue won the challenge defeating the Dallas Police Department in the 10k.
The President of the DRC, Peggie Monroe, as well as few other DRC members including myself, were on Good Morning Texas (ABC channel 8) on Thursday with the Fire/Rescue to help promote the race.
After arriving early, I took a few pictures of the bridge and managed to get one with Dallas Morning News blogger/runner Spareribs Lamothe and my friend John Nance. There were 1,412 10k finishers and 1,306 5k finishers. My goal this race was a PR for my 7th 10k race.
It took seven minutes for everyone just to cross the start line. I lined up about 50 rows back... a lot farther back than I usually line up. I took off slow as the bridge was right in front of us. Lots of people with cameras were taking pictures of themselves as they crossed the bridge. As I reached the 5k turnoff, I sure wanted to go that way, but I continued with the 10k course. My 5k split was 26:24.
Just past the 5 mile marker I started to run all out. I guess I was looking at all the beautiful ladies when I stepped in a pothole and fell. A nice lady and a Fireman helped me up. I was ok and told them to keep going, but they stayed with me. When I got to the bottom of the bridge, I told them I'm slow going up hills so they should finish strong and off they went as I thanked them for their support.
There were still some 5k finishers running as we were directed to the 10k lanes. My final time was 54:13, a new PR. I finished 12 out of 24 a few spots behind John Nance who finished 10th. A former Dallas Police chief, Dave Kunkle, beat me on a photo finish for 11th place. I was 361 out of 736 men and 477 out of 1412 overall 10k finishers.
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Place Bib # Men Overall Time Pace
12/24 1500 361/736 477/1412 54:13 8:44
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