"I was running and not feeling too well so I fell off the pace pretty quickly. I come by two miles and look at my watch and notice the bananaman running next to me. He says to me, 'So what was it?' And i replied '10:33.' He then keeps talking saying, 'Wow, that's a lot faster than I thought.....this is hard.' And I say, 'You bet.'
And then I realized, wait...I'm talking to a f***ing banana. What the hell am I doing? So I just took off."
Anyone have the men's and women's results of the Jamba Juice 5k in S.F. this morning? Rhodyco is usually slow at getting results up. Thanks.
I saw Peter Gilmore warming up there, but didnt see the finish. My guess is he won.
And then I saw Megan Daley, MLB, and I think Elissa Reidy warming up, so my guess is one of them
Hope this helps!
Sara Bei came out and won for the women, with Magda in second. I think Lundy, Reidy, and Daly were the rest of the top 5 for women. For the men it was Bolota Asmeron, Jonathan Riley, then Gilmore. Getting tougher to get the free juice every year...
bolota-what?
ok, since he was un-zinsli-able, i googled him. wow, eritrean and runs for cal. go bears!
http://www.angelfire.com/stars/eritreanrunners/biographies/basmeron.html
anyone have the link to the results?
1. bolota asmerom 14:12
2. jon riley 14:teens or twenties (i'm guessing)
3. peter gilmore 14:30
4. richie boulet 14:35
5. bryce lighthall 14:38
gilmore put in a nice move around 2 miles. and i believe about 2.5 is when bolota and riley started to really roll. my view wasn't all that great, though.
what about the women?
How old is that site? I think he graduated from Cal about 4 years ago. And I'd say Meb is faster.
Was he wearing the unitard?
Funnybeat wrote:
what about the women?
What about them? I think the results above are accurate. They almost caught me I think they were low 16's.
Amazing field I ran a 4:47 first mile (yes too fast) and couldn't see there were so many guys in between me and them. Peter you actually lost a PA race for the first time this year? Wow, you know the field must be good. If you are reading along sorry I couldn't stop to talk I was in between kid's races trying to get them here there and everywhere AND take pictures. Exciting stuff my son (the real Miles) was in the mix in the 50 right up in the front while yelling the entire stretch and we determined my daughter is more of a distance runner after her performance in the 200, ha.
results are up. what's with the pending decision? did they all cheat? ;)
http://www.doitsports.com/newresults3/client/113443_132216_2005.html
good to see they could take a break from crime-fighting to make the race:
8 Bruce Wayne / Berkeley, CA 2207 14:50 8 M16-19 19 1 26 4:46
45 Indiana Jones / Berkeley, CA 2304 16:33 43 M20-24 20 6 48 5:19
46 Peter Parker / Berkeley, CA 2206 16:33 44 M16-19 19 4 26 5:19
Miles and Miles wrote:
Amazing field I ran a 4:47 first mile (yes too fast)
And then a 5:07/mi. overall. Did you learn your lesson? :)
First mile was fast for everybody I talked to. Despite the tight turnaround. I guess it's more downhill than it looks.
No.
Balota took a short-cut.
wayner wrote:
Balota took a short-cut.
What, did the other four follow him? The top ten seem to have been pretty tightly bunched. Havent they all run the course before, or did they get directed the wrong way?
Where would you take a shortcut on that course? It was pretty well marked, I thought.
My understanding is that Bolota unintentionally cut across the "island" in the middle of the street on the left turn leaving the panhandle. The course was measured around the island. A protest was filed (not by me) and he was DQ'd. At most he gained two second by the cut and, in my opnion, would have won it anyway.
That first mile was a little spicy, mostly Bolota and Riley. I didn't take the lead until about 1500 meters and held it until Bolota took control around 4k. Another SF course that's so much tougher than it looks.
not that ive ever won any race money and dont pretend to know what it's like, but.....what kind of runner protests something like this, when bolota already "won" by 12 seconds? what's to be gained except for a couple hundred bucks or so? i can see if there were some high stakes involved, like if this were some presitigous race, or there was an OT/WC spot up for grabs. but for bananaman?
oh well, one less thing for us slow people to worry about.