Road Race Fun

As I mentioned earlier this week, one of my good friends was home from Hong Kong with her boyfriend from a short period of time. And for whatever reason, we decided that it would be a good idea to do a road race while they were in town. So, last Saturday, we drove to the booming metropolis of Madison SD (population 6000) for a 5K race. Although, to be fair, Linda's boyfriend was really the only one who "raced" the event. Here he is at the start, at the front of the pack.

He stayed with that pack for pretty much the entire race, finishing in the top 10 with a time just over 20 minutes later. Damn Canadians.

The rest of us took it much easier (mostly out of necessity, but whatever). We ran together with the middle of the pack for awhile, but it didn't take long for Darrell to split off from Linda and me.

And even though Linda probably could have finished faster than the pace I was running at (just faster than a 10 min/mile), we ran the whole thing together and got a fun picture of the finish.

Okay, so maybe I make it look more painful than fun, but whatever. The best part of the event actually came after the 5K was over; as a part of the day's festivities they had a half-mile fun run for the kids. So as we were walking around and cooling down this mob of kids, ranging in age from 2 to 12, came dashing down the street. It was super cute, and almost worth the grueling 5K race on mostly uncovered highways. Almost.