December 7 Run

December 7 Run

Our first run in December drew about 18 people, many of them bringing blankets for our seventh annual collection for the Coalition for the Homeless.  Dave Berry was once again there with his truck and will be delivering some 50 or more blankets to the shelter tomorrow.  Contributing to this effort were our ORC Sunday group, Teresa Williams Sunday group, Galloway, Marthonfest and St. Margaret Mary Church.  Sincere thanks to all who contributed, and special kudos to Dave for his key role in this effort!

 

Joining us for the run were visitors Lynne, son Sean and husband Bob from D.C. and Gina who works out of both D.C. and Clermont.

 

Chris & I had to pass on today's run. Chris due to a knee issue and me to a foot blister!

 

Post run Gathering

Lynne and Sean competed in an Irish Dance Festival on Saturday and Sean came away with two wins!  The four of them joined us for breakfast at Paneras afterwards, along with Robert, Dylan and, believe it or not—Eamonn! (who is totally slammed with work and pursuing a Rollins MBA).

 

Yesterday's OUC Half Marathon

I have accounted for 22 of our group competing yesterday on a fairly hot day. A third of the group broke two hours!  In order of speed was Robert (1:43), Atif (1:48), Ralph (1:49), John (1:55), Mark (1:55), Mike (1:57), and Chris (1:59).

 

Chris took first place in umber of family members participating (five I believe)

 

As a consequence of running unopposed in my age group, I was able to rein in first place in the age 80 group!  My mantra is "If you can't outrun them, outlast them!"

 

Christine came down with the flu and was unable to fulfill her gig at the ORC water stop at mile 2.  Kirsty also volunteered for this gig and showed up with blankets this morning.  Geralynn and Helene had to scrap participating due to injuries.

 

By the way, this was the largest OUC Half on record, with over 3300 runners!

 

Have a great week!

 

Jack