Surface Swrun

I get enjoyment when things that logically don't seem to go together, but end up making a pretty good pairing. Running in the winter could be one example for sure. Another, on this night, was seven divers getting together to run a 5K. With the season over for the most part, in both sports, this fun run came at the right time. Divers are a unique bunch and one thing I've noticed is if one of us is doing something, others get very interested and it suddenly becomes maybe I should do that too. This can be both bad (lets push the limits at little more than we should) and good (in this case, lets be more healthy and push ourselves).

The Run Through The Lights race was a free event with a food donation and looped around downtown Kalamazoo. It wasn't a timed event, so it was more of a fun event, but for the two people in our group who hadn't run a 5K before, it was a good starting point. One of who was deathly afraid of finishing last, yet I watched her sprint at the end (and for the record wasn't even close to finishing last). The other new person was already planning on getting us to do a small triathlon together for next year. So, from that point, I think our outing was a huge success. But based on the participation, I have to imagine the whole event was also a success. I think my overall favorite part were the reactions from people in cars as they all had looks of surprise, shock, and maybe even fear as this giant mob of people were running at them. Based on the huge crowd, which was suppose to stick to the sidewalks but we spilled out into the road and took a single lane of traffic too.

One lesson from the night, even though divers seem to be able to talk their fellow divers into some things, it's only by doing. Afterward for dinner to celebrate, none of us could convince the other to attempt The Bomb Burger. It's only a full pound of beef and another pound of fries, yet without actually seeing somebody DO IT, we all passed on that challenge!