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Who is going to New Orleans for the Crescent City Classic this Saturday? I, for one, would be interested in going down Friday night. I'm not sure I'm willing to take my chances with the early morning deer feedings again.

GottaTri wrote:Who is going to New Orleans for the Crescent City Classic this Saturday? I, for one, would be interested in going down Friday night. I'm not sure I'm willing to take my chances with the early morning deer feedings again.

Hi Susan, here is a list of some pacers going to the Crescent City Classic in NOLA. I know a couple of them. However, I don't recall many other names. Maybe I have seen these runners, but I don't associate names with faces very well. The Alzheimer's is killing me!
I am not sure whether I am going to NOLA. If I do so, I will check for deer early Saturday morning.

1. Laura Anderson
2. Susan Davidson
3. Nestor Raul Anzola
4. Amy Edwards
5. Victor Green
6. Arthur Rowell
7. Karen Rowell
8. Chris Shivers
9. Marlene Shivers
10. Jennifer Torres
11. Brandy Windham
12. Conner Griffin
13. Lewis Griffin
14. Mary Beth Griffin
15. Alaina Griffin
16. Joseph Tosterud

I'll be heading down Friday afternoon, I have a friends place to stay at. I want to make sure I have plenty of time to check out the expo on Friday afternoon.

We are planning on going. I'm sure we'll not see a soul we know; but at least we'll know some of our pbp friends will be there ... somewhere

Robbie & Kent Headrick

I've decided to drive down Saturday morning. If anyone would like to ride with me or caravan, let me know.

GottaTri wrote:I've decided to drive down Saturday morning. If anyone would like to ride with me or caravan, let me know.

Ooooops! -- I'm sorry Susan. I am just checking the e-mail and the forum after 2 days of absence in the internet. Congratulations for your time and new PR in New Orleans!

Here are the chip times for several Pine Belt Pacers (for some reason, the times look a little off by seconds and minutes in some cases How can this happen? I don't know)
There were around 20,000 people running in this edition of the race.

Place -- Name -- Chip time

Nestor Raul Anzola -- 48:11
Robbie Headrick -- 56:54
Victor Green -- 57:14
Laura Anderson -- 59:05
Brandy Windham -- 1:06:12
Kent Headrick -- 1:06:47
Jennifer Torres -- 1:07:49
Amy Edwards -- 1:11:38
Susan Davidson -- 1:21:06

A complete race report of the Crescent City Classic can be found at Robbie's blog --->

http://robbieandkent.blogspot.com/2009/ ... -race.html

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Report from the Times Picayune -->

http://blog.nola.com/running/2009/04/ne ... in_th.html
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Raul wrote:A complete race report of the Crescent City Classic can be found at Robbie's blog --->

http://robbieandkent.blogspot.com/2009/ ... -race.html

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Here is Jen's Report-->

http://therunningartist.blogspot.com/20 ... assic.html

I drove down to New Orleans Friday and went to a crawfish boil to start the weekend off right. Then I went to the Expo and got my tee-shirt and timing chip (an extra $5!) and a bus pass for the morning ($2 more). Somehow I didn't receive that handy pamphlet telling me where to park, which starting corral I was in, etc.
Saturday morning I parked on the neutral ground on Marconi and took the school bus to the quarter. The weather was perfect and not too hot. I was orange color bib with an anticipated finish time of 52:00 so I was pretty far back, in the corral with the 50 minutes- 80 minutes people. I heard the cannon go off but I didn't cross the Start line for almost another 4 minutes! I spent the first 1.5 miles trying to dodge people. I stepped over a dead rat and passed two dogs and a stroller and lots of walkers. I got pretty stressed out but then I accepted the fact that this was not going to be a "fast" race for me and tried to relax and enjoy the crowd and the view and the spectators. I had a side stitch for a few miles and really wanted to walk but I kept going and eventually it got better. My official finish time was 59:05. My watch time from start line to finish line was 55:31, almost 3 minutes slower than the Azalea 10K.
So, I was dissapointed in my time but met some nice people. I ran into Raul at the after-party and we had some red beans and rice together. The red beans were so much better than they were in Mobile! I also had a little smoothie from Smoothie King before the line got too bad. And, I picked up a bag from the New Orleans Track Club table that included a pamphlet with all the information I wanted to know about the CCC! It would have been even more helpful BEFORE the race. All in all, it was a fun, but not fast, race.