Today was a working day.

Yep, I’m an events guy with the Running Room……and part of that job involves setting up the start, finish line, and everything that goes into the pre and post nutrition area..and me walking the 5k route to mark off the directions and to set up the direction signs……so, yep, started up my morning with a 5.06K walk.

Cool thing, there was another run scheduled this morning…a 5K Park Run..and while I was setting up our route, they ran by me….the cooler thing, I knew a lot of those runners…so a lot of good mornings, happy new years…that was a nice way to start up the day…

My next job was sweeping the kid’s 1K run…which meant another 1.06K walk/run…it was okay, there were a few quicker kids, I was following/sweeping a French coule with two kids, that maybe wanted to run, or cry, or scream, or wanted to be carried……but fun.

Job number 3 on the morning of my 65th Birthday……sweep behind the 5K runners and walkers….which wasn’t as much fun as it sounds….5.58K, following a group that had no intention of doing anything but site seeing, taking pictures, stopping to look at their kids, hardly walking, more like sauntering…. frustraiting…at one point I just stopped, let them get a K ahead of me so I could actually run for a bit…

I took a few detours, and for some reason the hydration station crew set up the turn around point at 5.03K, and not where I set up the turn around marker….so as those ahead of me turned, I carried on for another 5K…..so as I ran back to the start, I could actually run, a bit from mileage marker to mileage marker….so that did feel a bit better…..and I got to cross the finish line and get my medal…

The run wasn’t a chipped run, so distance and time wasn’t a big deal….and then, coffee, some food, and then it was time to take everything down…..

Almost 12K walking and running….had fun, hooked up with a lot of people I hadn’t seen for a while, and welcomed in a new year…..hello 65

Or Maybe 26?

I could only wish