Today's 5K race was a small one, but it threw everything at me.
The start was in a park, so 1/4 mile of acorns, branches, and who knows what all embeded in tall grass.
Beat up asphalt roads came next, but I'm used to that.
A block of gravel road, been there, no prob.
Then all of a sudden you exit a paved street for a downhill in total junk in a different park. Not even barefoot walkable!
Did it anyways. Another block of gravel, and then finaly the finish was another 1/4 mile of acorns and branches in the park.
NOT my fastest time! But despite the expanded-for-this-small-race age grouping of 50-59, I did take third.
Plenty of cheers while accepting my aluminum bottle prize and chiropractor gift certificate.
I had my hands fuller than ever working the crowd of curious runners while trying to eat my apple, and most of them had read "'the book"
Ted, if your listening, I mentioned how you had piped in recently on this site, and it was as if I had said that Eric Clapton had begged to differ with what a guitarist had posted in some Yahoo group.
The people have spoken, and they are ready for BFRunning.
O.K., so maybe it's Vibrams they really are after, but I made a point of insisting on "Vee Brems" after they make the transition succesfully fully bare.
They left happy.
The start was in a park, so 1/4 mile of acorns, branches, and who knows what all embeded in tall grass.
Beat up asphalt roads came next, but I'm used to that.
A block of gravel road, been there, no prob.
Then all of a sudden you exit a paved street for a downhill in total junk in a different park. Not even barefoot walkable!
Did it anyways. Another block of gravel, and then finaly the finish was another 1/4 mile of acorns and branches in the park.
NOT my fastest time! But despite the expanded-for-this-small-race age grouping of 50-59, I did take third.
Plenty of cheers while accepting my aluminum bottle prize and chiropractor gift certificate.
I had my hands fuller than ever working the crowd of curious runners while trying to eat my apple, and most of them had read "'the book"
Ted, if your listening, I mentioned how you had piped in recently on this site, and it was as if I had said that Eric Clapton had begged to differ with what a guitarist had posted in some Yahoo group.
The people have spoken, and they are ready for BFRunning.
O.K., so maybe it's Vibrams they really are after, but I made a point of insisting on "Vee Brems" after they make the transition succesfully fully bare.
They left happy.