The race this morning went very well, all things considered. There were things we could have done a bit better…my throat wishes we’d had a megaphone, and there were about 15 runners who took an unintentional ~0.15 mile shortcut…but all in all, I think we did a really great job for a first-year race. Everyone was there on time; the EMTs, HAM radio guys, Jay and the timing equipment, the sheriff’s deputies were all where I needed them to be. I had an awesome group of volunteers that included Jason, Debbie, Ron, Buzz, Gavin, Jen, Becca, Paul, Sonia, Leeward, Marianne, and others.
We had 138 registered 5K runners, and 8 kids for the Kid’s K. The overall male winner was a Mexican man I’ve seen at many local races before, with a time of 17:46. The female winner is a NASA girl who was in training with me when I first started working with a time of 22:07. And we made $1000 for our charities.
Awesome.
