This was a nice course although within one hour of the start the temperature had risen by 15 degrees to a very warm 75. The course had no downhill portion and climbed for 13 miles at a 1-3% grade. I jogged it and enjoyed it.
At the end of the race, I was interviewed by Donald Trump. SeriouslyJ. Here is the exchange (The Donald’s answers are from many of his worst yet somewhat funny quotes).
Trump: So, Mikie, how did you do today?
Mikie: I ran slow and steady, but I finished.
Trump: Mikie, you don’t sound very passionate. Without
passion, you don’t have energy. You have nothing. Nothing great in the world
has been accomplished without passion. Mikie: But I do have passion, Mr. Trump. That was my 57th half marathon in nine years.
Trump: Mikie, you can be great again! In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish. By the way, do you know I am really rich?
Mikie: So even though I have slowed quite a bit due to two back surgeries and colitis, you don’t seem to appreciate what I have done. BTW: I know you are rich. Could you share some of your money with my school?
Trump: I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. You’re a loser Mikie. I’d fire you if you were on the Apprentice.
Mikie: Do you really think I care about that Mr. Trump.
Trump: It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Mikie: Agreed. I think I have done that with this challenge to myself. But in this race, I hit the “Wall” on mile nine and really struggled in the heat.
Trump: We have to have a wall. We have to have a border. And in that wall were going to have a big fat door where people can come in the country, but they have to come in legally. I will build a great wall-and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me.
Mikie: Mr. Trump, I am talking about the “runner’s wall” which describes when you have run out of energy to run the race. By the way, there is no door in the “runner’s wall." You just have to crash through it. Also, do you realize how condescending you can be?
Trump: I think I am a nice person. People that know me, like me. All the women on “The Apprentice” flirted with me, consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected. Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.
Mikie: Would you be willing to buy me a new pair of Asics Kayano’s? My feet hurt quite a bit during this race.
Trump: I’m really rich, but I think you’d have riots if I bought you new shoes. Mikie, YOU’RE FIRED!
I am pretty sure I will not be offered the Vice President position
or any position in his cabinet if he should become #45.
