38,000 people filled the streets of Grand Rapids today and last night when I finally went to sleep around 2AM (we were having a fire and s’mores gathering in the backyard) I said to Jeff (who stayed up until 4AM),  ”You know, a 15.5 mile run is just to easy, I wish there was a way to be more difficult”.  

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Then I slept for four hours (lack of sleep does not effect running).

When I woke up @ 6AM it was pouring rain and what better way to get to my 25k run that I would be starting at 8:20AM than to walk one and a half miles there. In the rain.  Jeff joined me.

Can you sense my sarcasm in various areas of this post?

I will spare the details and how the course got changed because of flooding and how I ate this goo they handed out, only because it was free, or how I love to eat the free food, and pace myself against brightly colored shirts.  

After 2 hr. 13 minutes (finishing 1790 out of 17,000, some of whcih ran a 5k & 10k) I ate that free food and found Jeff’s family who were there cheering me on after two of his sisters had finished the 5k.

As Joel told me to say in response…”It Was Successful”