We did it! Our entire team finished the River Roots & Ruts Half Marathon at the Caloosahatchee Regional Park, near Ft. Myers on January 6. Let's celebrate with a photo post...
We begin with dinner at Bianca's "Ristorante Italiano" or, as it turned out, Bianca's "Ristorante That Did Not Honor its Deal With the Race Director." Our $10 special runners' menu was nowhere to be found. My mushroom spaghetti, though, rawked!
Race day: Amy and I speed past photographer Emma, followed closely by Berinice. The course was gorgeous--lots of different types of South Florida terrain. The trail was a challenging mountain bike course which brought some large rises and dips. Very, very tough.
Soon after, Robin, Kay and Mark came along. This is how they want you to think they feel:
This is how they really feel:
Berinice double-fists. That's right.
Don't hate.
Berinice finishes with a smile!
Congrats to Mark on finishing his first half marathon!!
Guess who took 3rd in her age group!
And I even got a poop trophy (thanks, Jodi).
Congrats to Aubrey--another first-timer!
Another great race with a great group of people.
The race experience is always better when it's shared with friends.
2 comments:
Congratulations on the trophy (in whatever form it happens to be ;))! That sounds like a challenging, but fun, course -- I'll have to give it a try someday.
No better commentary is possible for the infamous River, Roots & Ruts Half Marathon. As a subject of one of the photos I can say that you are 100% correct in your assessment of the situation. Emma is a good photographer - she captured the ENTIRE experience. All of it.
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