The Great Columbia Crossing

After a long Saturday of soccer, our running group took Sunday morning to ourselves and ran the Great Columbia Crossing in Astoria, OR. This race starts in Washington at the Dismal Nitch Rest Area, crosses the Astoria-Megler Bridge over the Columbia River and ends in Astoria, OR. It was a beautiful day and everyone did great. The bridge is 4.1 miles long with a ¾ mile long climb up 205 feet before descending back down toward Astoria. The 10k (6.2 mile) race finished at Tapiola Park in Astoria. If you live in Longview and do your running training anywhere other than Lake Sacajawea, you have to run hills. Fortunately for us, we were well prepared from our many training runs, and everyone passed more runners than they were passed. This is how runners measure how well we run, and of course we looked totally better than everyone else! (LOL) We all finished between 53 and 57 minutes and then enjoyed a bowl of great chowder and a leisurely walk back to our ride.

Dan doesn’t run with us in the mornings, but we consider him one of our “Raccoon Racers” and he has joined us for a few races. We missed one of our training partners, Cindy, this race, but she'll be with us at the next one. Next up...the annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot.

The Raccoon Racers - Shannon, Trish, Carol and Dan

(Absent - Cindy)

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