Too lazy to confirm this one, but I'm about 99% sure. Today I went to the Fool's Run 10k in Indiana. Picked up my race packet and noticed that I had a strikingly familiar number. For the second time in three races I got the same race bib number. It made me wonder if I had ever had it before and that's the part I'm about 99% sure of. I plan on going back through all of my bibs to confirm but for now, near certainty is gonna have to do.
Today my bib number was "7". I remembered it because at the Maple Fest 5 miler two weeks ago I remarked that it was just my luck that I had been given Ben Roethlisberger's number. As a Steeler-hater, it bothered me. Imagine my surprise and disgust when I saw it again today. But perhaps I'm onto something. After setting a PR in the 5-miler two weeks ago, I went on to run the very difficult 10k course with lots of steep uphills in a PR time of 41:04. Breaking my prior PR of June, 2007 by :34 seconds.
Four weeks until Pittsburgh. I have to say, my running is going quite well right now.
