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The race started 46 minutes late because the starter decided she wanted to sleep in. it worked out well for me though because as it turned out, I slept in too. so I made it just in time for the start. 

the start line was in the middle of nowhere, somewhere between Tower and Blarney, I could feel my sock slipping down into my shoe but I didn't have time to fix it, because the race was starting with or without me

Celine Dion was blaring in the headphones and there was a 3,2,1 countdown and I was off. the road was a nice straight line with some rolling hills and at just around the 1mile there was a 200m loop around the metropolitan Tower Village, where I passed by what was once the biggest Centra in Ireland, but was in recent years turned into just a regular sized Super Valu. queues were just beginning to form. Living next to a Supermarket is the equivalent of living right in the middle of Temple Bar these days. 

from there, I took a right turn and went back down the road I had come up, again a nice straight line, a wind blowing, but not near enough to be able to use it as an excuse (in fact weather conditions were pretty much ideal). I kept running this way until I reached what I felt was pretty close to the 2km limit from my house, where I had to utilise a skill I haven't used since my soccer days and do an abrupt 180degree turn, for fear of getting electrocuted or shot. 

I did the last mile, again running up the road towards Tower and finished right by Super Valu, where crowds were really starting to form, almost exactly like the finish of a race minus the cheering and I had to make an effort to not look like I was dying or to cough up a lung as I feel in these times that might be frowned upon 

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