Even when you're running the world, you can't get off.

I decided to participate in the annual Turkey Trot in Clearwater as my Thanksgiving activity. I had some dinner plans for the afternoon in Sarasota, but wanted to get in a good run. This was my first 10K since the Midnight Run in Dunedin July 4th (it seems most of my big runs are on holidays sometimes). This run was just a few days coming off of the Florida Ragnar Relay race across the state, but I was able to do a somewhat decent time of 52:16.

Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.

This weekend I joined members of the Brandon Running Association in a relay race across the state called the Florida Ragnar Relay Race. There were about 100 teams of 10-12 competing in a race from Tarpon springs to Daytona Beach. I had heard about the event in previous years through friends, but since I started taking running seriously in April, I wanted to start doing a few more events. Normally when I run alone, even in a race, it is easy to not push too much, but I found myself going forth as much as possible since I didn't want to let down anyone in the team. I got a personal record in terms of race times for each of my segments, essentially a 5K and two 10K portions. We had a very strong overall showing among our team member with only one realy injury casualty, Stacy. During an early morning part, she took a hard spill that scrapped up her knees and hands, but was still able to finish off strong. Overall, of 105 teams we came in 24th with a total time of 30 hours, 23 minutes, and 26 seconds for a distance covering 191 miles.

I had personal records for each of my legs, as recorded by my GPS.
Leg 1: ~5K (3.2 miles) 23:40
Leg 2: ~10K (6.6 miles) 52:45
Leg 3: ~10K (6.1 miles) 51:23

Before I left for Peru, my running coach asked me to put together a video for the team party using photos and videos taken by out members. I have put together a few small videos in the past, but this is the first one that is of any length, so I hope it comes out ok.

Looking beyond the embers of bridges burning behind us.... -Pink Floyd

Can a burned bridge ever be rebuilt?