I ran the Jingle Bell run on December 13 that I realized I didn't blog on yet.  I kept waiting for photos or results.  I did find my results but never photos so I just didn't around to posting it.  This race was a 5K and 2 mile walk. It had 1503 people who ran the 5K.  It had another 1200 or so who did the 2 mile part.  The 2 mile folks were not timed so there is not a number for how many ran that.  It was cold and dry the day of the race.

These photos are at the beginning of the race while I was waiting for the race to start.  Once they started the race, there was no room to move due to bodies in the way.  I did notice that many families did this race as a family and hung out with those that they knew only.  I saw a couple of students and a few teachers as part of this.  I also saw a few that attend Northside Christian Church that I knew.  I however did run this without many friends.  I knew kind of a few others who ran this but I did not know them well enough to engage in a conversation with them.  There were three women running this from Woodward Park Baptist Church.  Also I knew two folks at an Aid Station also.  

This was my official time for the race, I didn't push myself but also did not slack on it.  I hope the next time I run a timed 5K that I can get lower than 30 minutes for the race.  It would also help if the race is not overloaded as this one was.   There were a few times that I couldn't run through a crowd of folks because they were taking up the whole road.  I do not appreciate that about some races.  They need to space out runners better so that faster runners are ahead and slower runners are in the back of the pack.  I am not sure how to do that unless you only let 200 people start every 5 minutes or so.  It's crazy when 1500 folks are all starting at the same time.  Mass craziness and the runners feel like animals being pushed through corrals .  The finish areas often feel the same even if the race area is much wider.