Additional Close-to-the-Coast Info

Mike called yesterday just to tell me, "You blew it." Turns out they were giving away pies to the top few finishers in each age group. You had to be there to win, and lots of people weren't, so eventually they called my name. I coulda hadda pie!
Actually, the results are posted at http://www.coolrunning.com/results/07/me/Jun16_Freepo_set3.shtml
I finished third in my class (of six, so la-di-frickin-da). Meg was sixth in her class (of fourteen, and with a pace twice as fast as the fourteenth place finisher).
Now that I look a little closer at the times, I think if I'd known I was in a head-to-head duel with these old farts, I might have been able to take every one of them and had the first-place-pie for our class! Anyway, the first four of us were relatively close together.

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