Entertaining Facts According to the Results

• The oldest woman who finished was 99 years old. She beat me by 5 minutes. :)
• The oldest man who finished was also 99 years old. He finished in 2 hrs 45 minutes.
• The youngest women were 5 14-year-old girls, all of whom beat me. Their times ranged from 4:13 to 6:26.
• The youngest men were 7 14-year-old boys, all of whom beat me. Their times ranged from 4:29 to 6:50.
• The actual fastest person to finish was a handcycler (hand wheelchair) who finished in 1:22. Amazing!
• The fastest wheelchair participant finished in 1:59. Again amazing!
• There were 93 participants from Costa Rica, where we honeymooned last year.
• There were 107 from England, 1 from Ethiopia, 1 from Poland, 1 servicemember each from Iraq and Afghanistan, and 1 from Swaziland. (There were lots of foreign participants, this was just a snippet.)
• There were 6 people from Clemson, SC. 439 from all of SC.
• There were 53 people from Lorton, including me. 10 of them did not finish. I was the last person to finish from Lorton. The fastest was in 2:51. I just realized that Ft. Belvoir is in Lorton, so lots of those were probably Army people.