Last Saturday, The Sis and I ran the Houston Astro’s 3rd Annual Race for the Pennant 5K Run/Walk. I haven’t been running nearly as often as I should be, so my times were rather horrible.

The course for the Race for the Pennant started just outside Minute Maid Park, wound through a portion of downtown, and ended up on the field inside the stadium. Excellent. Even though it was on the Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend, a pretty good sized crowd showed up.

• The race started at 7:45am. Skokie woke me up at 7:20am. After yelling “MOTHERFUCKER” a few times, I hauled ass onto the freeway. Luckily, I had slept in my race clothes. Amazingly, I made it downtown, found parking, and met up with The Sis at 7:40am….with even enough time to put on a timing chip. I even passed two cops while driving 2039475 mph up 59.
• Free stuff: water bottles, Minute Maid apple juice (of course), Powerade, Capri Sun drinks, oranges, pears, bananas, Krispy Kreme, Kolaches, and grilled chicken wraps from Pei Wei…yuck. As The Sis commented, who wants to eat greasy Chinese food at 8:30am? For lunch and dinner, tho, Pei Wei is da bomb.
• As part of our race packets, we received two vouchers for free Astros tickets. Too bad the Astros suck.

So, my race results:

• Overall place: 900 out of 1168.
• Chip time: 34:07
• Pace per mile: 11:00/M

bleh.