Black Friday Turkey Trots 2022

November 25th, 2022

This is a four mile race I actually run quickly, for better or worse. It's held the day after Thanksgiving and—in theory—by forcing myself to race it, I cultivate restraint in my eating and drinking the day before. In reality, for the last two years I've done a challenging half marathon the day before and lacked self-discipline the rest of the day.

Neither Ken Gordon nor James DuPlain were present, but there was a new participant, Piggy Style, who looked fast. Sure enough, I pulled away from everyone except Piggy Style, who casually asked

| Mind if I run with you?

I was happy to have the company, but I immediately knew that I was destined for second place.

When I learned that Piggy Style had moved to Albuquerque recently, I let him know a bit about the local running scene. We stayed together until the turnaround. By that point, he had seen the entire course so I encouraged him to run his pace, not mine, and off he went.

My official time was 30:27.6, a bit slower than 2021 (28:50.7). My fastest was in 2018 (28:20.2).