Win Something!

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Okay, folks, tomorrow at 9:30 is the Gasparilla Classic 5k (3.1 miles for those metric-impaired folks in the audience) - I'm running it, and have spontaneously decided to offer up some trinket of my own choosing to whomever wins the following contest:

What will my finish time be? (My personal time trial a month ago was about 23:30)

Make your guess in the comments, to the nearest second (37:16, 19:52, etc). The person closest to my actual time will get... something. Probably something cheap and random, or maybe nifty. An exactly-right guess will probably get something marginally niftier than an inaccurate winning entry.

My time will be officially tracked by a ChampionChip affixed to my person, and I am runner number 9488 - results will be posted at www.tampabayrun.com after the race is over (not sure how fast those go up, but I expect to know by sometime Saturday afternoon or Sunday).

Comments

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

22:37

i always have faster race times, but not much faster. good luck.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

21.22.23

Good luck.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Sorry -- that was nearest hundredth of a second, that OK?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Since it rounds down to 21:22, yeah. I don't know the level of precision the tracking provides, but suspect it's whole seconds.

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

21:06

[tylorael.livejournal.com]

21.32

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

22:39

Good luck!

[poisongirl.livejournal.com]

Awesome! It's like Rafe lojac!!

I'll bet K has thought about doing that for years. ;-)

I say 25:00. I'll be positive.

[ivy]

21:49

[ginnyland.livejournal.com]

22:52

and good luck!

[anarcha.livejournal.com]

22:15

[anarcha.livejournal.com]

How many entrants? And do they corral the starters by expected time?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

They asked us to submit an expected finish time when we registered, so I would imagine there's going to be a bit of performance herding going on. I have no idea how many entrants, but my tag number is nearly 9500; I don't know if that's counted consecutively among all four races occurring this weekend (5k, 15k, half- and full marathons).

[mitejen.livejournal.com]

Hmm. . . 22.35

I just have a good feeling about those numbers.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

21:05

[elixxir.livejournal.com]

23:23

[geekers.livejournal.com]

20:48

[david-deacon.livejournal.com]

23:00 on the nose.

[chesch.livejournal.com]

22:32