They didn’t have pace areas unfortunately at the starting line (often races will have a “line up here if your expected pace/finish time is X”), so everyone just kind of jumped in where they were, which ended up being annoying as we started wayyyy farther back than we should have. I was impressed Kathleen ran with a Halloween headband on! Festive. I was rocking one of those space blanket thingies to keep me warm before we took off! Here we all are in the corral at the start. None of us were trying to race the 10k or set any new records, so we agreed to stick together, chat away, and keep the pace casual. I really miss our weekly sunrise run dates! I was running with my friends Kathleen and Sokphal – always nice to have buddies for a race! Kathleen lives here so we trained together some, and Sokphal was in town visiting and it was so good to see her again. I arrived at the race start area about 30 minutes before the start of the race, which was cutting it a little close (my Lyft driver got a little lost), but thankfully I was able to find my friends, check my bag (with my coat and such for post-race), and hit the porta potty! We had the perfect morning for a race – it was quite cold at the start, but crisp and clear and warmed up a bit as we went. So cool to be down on the National Mall when the sun is rising. The energy was amazing! The gorgeous sunrise helped, too: I was supposed to run the DC Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon in March 2020, but we all know how that turned out…Īnyway! I had forgotten just how exciting it is to be at the start of a race.

I was really excited to get back out and do a race for the first time in 3 years (whoa – the last race I did was the 2019 Marine Corps 10k!).

😉 Matt has always preferred playing soccer to regular running, anyway! He was not super sad to miss out, to be honest. The other three times I ran it were with Matt (recaps -> 2014, 2018, and 2019!), but this year I ran it with a couple friends. It’s official – my fourth Marine Corps 10k is in the books!

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