Fun Run Today!

[surrealestate]

Since you won't be able to leave the neighborhood, anyway, you might as well come out and cheer the Jingle Bell Run! It's a great time, with a big party in Davis Square and thousands of runners in costume. You can check out the route map. I know a lot of you live on or within a block or so of it (I'm looking at you, barodar, gilana, desiringsubject, veek, plumtreeblossom, unferth, ron_newman, vibrant_abyss, bluesauce, uberjay, wow this list is getting long so I'll stop now, but there are more!) so it's not much of an effort.

I'll be running with anomie666, who is doing his second ever 5K! Woo! (One of us will be a chubby runner who looks sorta like Santa and the other one is Matt.) I keep saying I''ll run it at his pace whatever that is, but in my head, I'm slightly worried about keeping up with him, especially trailing four feet of Santa hat. But I think it'll work out. :) (Other folks I know are also running it, but since they never want to run with me, they don't get shout-outs. :P )

The race starts at 11am and proceeds relatively slowly for a 5K because of all the costumes, but even the walkers will finish in an hour, so plan accordingly.

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! You guys were lookin' great! We had fun cheering on the runners, while being stuffed with breakfast. :-)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm so glad you guys were there. :)

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

Wish I could have been there, still contagious and don't want to be around folk til that's not the case. Goodonya, though, for doing this!!!

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

Was in the square for the start. Sadly, couldn't pick you out of the the crowd.

I did win for overheard comments: "Oh, that's neat, those two girls were dressed as presents. Yeah, they were in boxes with holes cut out for their arms."

For those who didn't get to see, the only pair of boxy costumes in the race were a pair of dreidels, and they had just gone past...

[beowabbit]

For those who didn't get to see, the only pair of boxy costumes in the race were a pair of dreidels, and they had just gone past...

And that’s probably who the person you overheard was talking about, but just for the sake of scrupulous accuracy, plumtreeblossom and I did see people dressed up as presents, in boxy costumes..

BTW, I got photos of the dreidel runners; hope to post a link in DSLJ.

[vibrantabyss.livejournal.com]

I saw some running presents, but I didn't see a pair of women running together so dressed. I wouldn't mind being wrong, tho.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Thank you Jude!

It was an awesome run and you totally slowed down for me :).

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Well, I had to slow down with the costume, anyway, so it worked out. You really booked at the end there, though!

[beowabbit]

It was awesome to see you guys!

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

As above, I'm so glad you guys came out. :)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you posted this reminder, because otherwise I would have completely forgotten. I didn't see you, but then there were HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of people streaming by, OMG I had no idea this run attracted so many people! It was fun to watch, though.