Hello LR. Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of my participation in my town's Shamrock 5K. Since I'll be running again this year, discussion of the race with my wife last evening brought up something that happened last year.
To make a long story short, I out-kicked 5 women in the last 50-100m, and afterward my wife called me a coward for having done that. I think she was embarrassed because of it after having watched from the sidelines. It's not a huge race, and the 200 or so participants are all hanging around afterward before the awards ceremony. She looked uncomfortable the whole time.
I'll state the obvious. I'm not a young buck anymore, nor do I have the time to train like a young buck so I typically finish pretty far back in the pack where women and men are about evenly distributed. That said, one think I have preserved from my younger days is my devastating kick. I've always been able to draw from deep within and unleash fury in the final 100m.
Anyway, it's not a big deal. It only gained me 5 places and maybe -4 seconds off my time. If it bothers her so much (and if it is indeed cowardly), I can hold back this year. But I wanted to see what the wise minds (sarcasm) or LR and the larger running community thought about it.