Thursday November 28 2019
This was a race that fitted nicely into my schedule. I was in Tampa coaching Ambush U16s at the National Hockey Festival anyway, so I had been looking for a race that fitted in with the schedule. Luckily, I found a ‘Turkey Trot’ on Thanksgiving Thursday, 7am, and our games on that day didn’t start until 9 or 10 am so I could just about fit it in!
The race I found was the Goody Goody Turkey Gobble 8K. There were 4000 participants, and I finished 9th in the 8K, running a 6.31 mile pace.
I got up early and walked from our nice team hotel to the start line. The course started at the Amalie Ice Hockey arena and was very flat – great for PRing, along the nice Tampa Bay water front, and both distances (5K and 8K) looped back on to a shared course so it was a very busy last stretch coming in to finish. It was a fun race anyway. And as soon as I was done, I had to hustle back to the hotel, shower, and Uber to the hockey fields.
Later that trip I visited the Tampa Bay History Museum’s Pirating Exhibition –
Racing Americana 