Another Race for the Cure is in the books! This is one of my favorite events. It's for a good cause, of course, but it's just fun! The Susan G Komen Race for the Cure event in Detroit is one of the largest at over 30,000 participants. It's also the flattest 5K course I know of! My 5K PR was set there! I PR'd there 3 years in a row (4 if my first 5K counts as a PR!). I don't run anywhere near 23 minutes anymore but I have to say that this will most likely be the fastest 5K I run this summer. It began raining near the end of my race so I didn't stick around very long afterward. I usually wander around looking at the exhibits and getting lots of free samples from the sponsors and get my picture taken (which I can download for FREE a few days later!). But, the rain was chilly so I got a banana, water and cut diagonally across the big parking lot where everything is set up. I did manage to pick up a PINK grocery type bag and a really cool pink and lime green pen and got a bagel from Panera Bread!! I made my way back to the Fox Theater parking garage where I always park, and left. This was the fastest I've ever made it from the garage to the highway entrance! That 30-45 minutes that I didn't wander around really made a difference. It usually takes forever to get from the garage to the highway ramp which is a very short distance.
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| One of the t-shirts on display! |
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| walkers finishing up (taken from Fox parking garage) |
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| No baseball; Today, Comerica Park is hosting the Race for the Cure! |
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I have more pictures but it won't upload them so either I will have to make another post or try to edit this later. I wanted to post a picture of the big Tiger sporting a pink ribbon!
After returning from the race, I had to get back to my task at hand: getting ready for hosting my family and other friends on Memorial Day. Since becoming the world's oldest college student, my house is quite possibly a candidate for the messy house show on TV but I am working on that since inviting everyone over after the big parade in my hometown. It's looking much better; I even discovered a dining room table under a mountain of textbooks, folders, notebooks and much unopened and should have been thrown away mail!! What's more important - a 4.0 GPA or a clean house????? That's easy - the 4.0, of course!!!! A true nerd settles for nothing less!!!!
Runner Nerd
