10K, and I made it in an hour and three minutes or so (I can’t find the official results), slower than I was hoping, but I hadn’t run in months. Plus, Warren Finke, the ultramarathoner, ran it in 1 hour exactly so I don’t feel so bad. He was fooling around, though.

At the end of the run, Devo played a concert that was mostly songs off their first couple of albums. They sounded great and they looked like they were having fun. Along the route the bands were kind of pokey and the one band I wanted to hear, General Public, wasn’t playing by the time I got to them. I ran the extra 5K so I could hear two extra bands and it really wasn’t worth the extra pain to hear Tommy Tutone and whoever replaced Kajagoogoo at the last minute. When I got to the mystery band I was expecting General Public and when I saw the singer wasn’t Dave Wakeling, I just ran by without paying muhc attention. I think the best band on the route was was Tone Loc since he was early and having fun.

I knew that if Patty Finke of Team Oregon saw me, she’d tell me that being a weekend runner was a good way to get injured. Guess who I ran into at the finish line? It was all good fun and mostly worth the dehydration headache I got from it. If only I got to hear General Public or Bananarama (like they got at one of the other races) it would have been perfect.