EVENT: Los Angeles Chinatown Firecracker 5K DATE: Sunday, February 17, 2019 LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA RACE BEGAN: 08:00 am FINISH TIME: 0:29:45 This is my first race report in two years. This was not intentional. In March 2017, I was supposed to run a half-marathon, which had been a postponement of a 2016 race. I guess it wasn't meant to be. In 2018, the day of the Firecracker run, I had my second child right on the morning of the race. Leading up to that, I was willing to participate if I had been able to, but alas, the Year of the Dog medal will allude me until she's 12. I registered for this race late because I wasn't 100% sure I was going to attempt to make a comeback, but somehow I pulled the trigger. The kids would have normally come with us, but with an unusually cold (by Southern California standards... mid-30s) winter, we decided to drop them off instead. We grabbed our bibs, and I walked over to the start line just as things were starting, very c
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