Turkey Leg 5K

My brother and wife and I traveled to Willmar, MN for the Turkey Leg 5K. It was a morning which was crisp with a light dusting of snow falling as we ran. The opening pack took off quick and I maintained contact with the lead group until just before the first mile. I held out for a 7th place finish with a time of 19:16. I was first overall in my age group. My brother and I haven't had the chance to do too many races together, so this was a fun race to run with him. I took the picture of the postrace food, which I thought was unusual since this was a race with many children present, and you can see from the way the food was presented that it wasn't the most safe (the knives were present on the table in which they were presenting the food to the finishers). This picture also started the other trend for my brother and I to try to take the funniest post race food pictures at any races we do which we still continue to this day.

Rocky's Run

Dan and I did this double race day which is the first time I have done two races in the same day. Actually, I treated the first event as a race and then my brother and I jogged the 8K after the 5K. It was a beautiful course. The University of Minnesota Golf Course is well maintained with lots of undulating hills. It is also the site of the famous high school and college Griak race. In the 5K race, I finished with a time of 20:14 and was 33rd out of 214 overall. My pace was 6:31 min/mile and 4:03 min/km. In the second event, we slowed up to enjoy the 8K route and was 82nd out of 128 with a time of 40:08 for an 8:04 min/mile and 5:01 min/km pace. I actually ran into my old high school calculus teacher on the course as he was the official time keeper at the finish line of the event.