A lot of running

By kate on June 1st, 2004

This Saturday, Steve and I did the North Seattle Street Scramble. It’s one of those races where you need to get to checkpoints and then back to the finish in a given amount of time. The twist in the Street Scramble is that there are more checkpoints than you could possibly get to, so each team needs to assess their own pace and choose the route they think is most advantageous.

You could be on foot or on bike, and have a 90-minute or 3-hour time limit. We went for the hard-core, 3-hour foot option, and ran pretty much the whole time. Some hills we walked up, and there was some stopping at rest points, but pretty much we ran for 3 hours all over North Seattle (west of I-5, north of Green Lake).

It paid off, though – we won our class! That is, the “mixed” class (men and women) in the foot division. (They awarded us the first place ribbons, anyway. I think there was some kind of accounting error because on the website, another team is listed in first place.)

The real feeling of triumph came later, though, when we got home and Steve plotted our course on Microsoft Streets & Trips. To our surprise, we had run 12.3 miles! Almost a half marathon! That’s farther than I’ve ever run by almost 4 miles. I had no idea it was possible.


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2 Responses to “A lot of running”

  1. yruugrrl Says:
    June 1st, 2004 at 1:43 am

    Wow! Congratulations on your win AND on your distance. 12.3 miles is impressive!

  2. biblioholic Says:
    June 1st, 2004 at 3:19 am

    The results on the Street Scramble site show the “winning” team listed in both Mixed and Open. But we know who the REAL winners are. Congrats!

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