A short, small race was made shorter & smaller by buckets of rain. That won't prevent me from being proud of my first time on a podium since I took 2nd place in the second grade Oconomowoc school district spelling bee.
(My wife won her age group too, but that's not new for her.)
Because I know you're dying to know,
1. I lost that spelling bee on the word "embarrassed".
2. No, I wasn't EMBARRASSED, I was just mad because I was sure for years after that I spelled it correctly.
3. Yes, I'm still mad about it.