Description: Running Through Life: One Race at a Time
I’m pretty sure I won’t be around for the next centennial celebration in East Bridgewater so how could I pass up running the East Bridgewater Bicentennial 5K last weekend? Just a town over from where I live, 200 years is nothing to sneeze at so Happy Birthday, East Bridgewater!
The race was part of a group of fesitivities commemorating the bicentennial of East Bridgewater and a nice crowd gathered the morning of the run. The race was familiar to me as it was the same course as the Run for Jess so I knew there’d be some climbing along the way and planned for that heading out of the starting line. The course takes runners through the town of East Bridgewater and though the roads were open to traffic the local constabulary did a great job patrolling the course and keeping runners saf
Felt good out on the course and maintained a relatively consistent pace along the 5K route. I noted the course to be long (3.22 miles) and other runners commented on same but given this wasn’t an Olympic trial or anything I didn’t sweat pounding out the extra .12 mile for the race. I finished up the race with a time of 25:21 which is good for an official 5K pace of 8:19/miles.