Bix 1, Me 0

2 comments July 28th, 2008

I’ve been thoroughly Bix-ed.

My wife and I were in the Quad Cities over the weekend for a family reunion and she signed us up for her favorite race of all time. The Bix 7-mile run.

She and her buddies have done this race several times, but it was always done as a girls weekend out, so husbands were never invited. That made this my first Bix, and probably my last.

I knew the course was hilly. I knew it would be hot and humid. I knew every inch of everything I was wearing — including sweat squishing out of my shoes — would completely soaked when I finished.

I did it anyway.

I have never passed so many people during a race and still finished so far back in the pack and, while I was munching on a couple of granola bars in the post-race cooldown area, it occurred to me — again — that I’ve done all the racing I care for.

It’s time to leave that to younger, stronger and certainly better runners.

Still, I did beat my goal of finishing in less than an hour and a half. My official time was 1:25:18 (1:19:23 chip time) and I was 100th of 187 runners in my division so I was pretty far back.

Then, of course, if I started training seriously at Rock Cut State Park who knows …………….