Chil's Point of View….

‏I ran in the Seafair  Torchlight Run [http://www.seafair.com/events/torchrun] on the weekend. I did the 8K Run.

The route started off near South Lake Union, hit into Seattle downtown, went through the Alaska Way Viaduct and back to 9th Ave and Republican.

[Torchlight route]

Turn by Turn directions starting off at 9th Ave and Republican-

- Run down 9th Ave N
- Turn on Denny Way Towards Space Needle
- Take Wall St
- Turn on Seneca St towards water front
- Hit Alaska Way Viaduct towards quest field
- Near S Jackson St, navigate up Alaska Way Viaduct towards Seattle Center
- Proceed on Aurora Ave N
- Take Westlake Ave N towards Mercer St
- Onto 9th Ave N

Nelly and Sheila (Nelly’s sister; My sister in law) cheered me on while I did the run. 

[Nelly, Chilumba, and Sheila]

 It was a pretty cool experience, and I would definitely do it again.

It is amazing how many avid runners Seattle has. Looking at the table of participants, there were a total of 4618 registered runners – 2,838 finished the 8K and 1780 finished the 5K run.

The race announcer said there were over 5,000 (together with unregistered runners).

How did Chilumba do?

I did better than I expected.
I ran the whole course – never slowed down to walk. 

[Chilumba's running graph showing my pace]

I completed the race in 46 minutes and 22 seconds at a pace of 9:20 minutes per mile.
I was in the 1,713th position out of all the 2,838 registered runners in the 8K race – So I ran faster than 1,125 other people :- )
I was in the 1,084th position out of 1,490 males.
I was 161th out of 231 other runners in my age group. 

[Snippet of 8K run results]

Here some rough stats:

Run	Females	Males	Total
5K	1070	1070	2140
8K	1348	1348	2696
Total	2418	2418	4836

My Results:

Overall Position:	1713 / 2418
Male Position:	1084 / 1348
Age Group Position:	161 / 231
8K run time (min):	46 min 22 sec
8K run pace (min/mile):	9 min 20 sec

 

The race pictures Nelly took (and the ones I took on my phone) are here .