Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving! Have a happy one! Praise the Lord for yet another day and blessed to be able to eat, drink and hopefully be merry.

Today's agenda-race!

There were a plethora of events held today in practically every county, some had 2 or 3! Naturally, I had to go through a selection process to narrow down to 1 (no double available with all in the morning). Here is what I considered for today:

1. the gobbler 5k
2. palm beach turkey trot (fun run)
3. run 4 the pies
4. jcc turkey trot
5. tamarac turkey trot
6. ft Lauderdale turkey trot
7. Baptist turkey trot 5k/10k
8. jungle island turkey trot

You can eliminate the former (out of tri county area). Using the been there, done that rule, take out 4,5,7. Limiting to award races, #2 is out. Keeping with 5k, strike #3. Employing proximity rule, the last 2 were in my county. The latter won out employing the inaugural rule.

Other than the wind, weather was great (54), although a bit colder than I like. First 2 miles of course in the streets then we enter the treacherous jungle island. It had way more numerous and sharper turns than the zoo. There were timing issues that had me on a roller coaster until the award ceremony. I saw 21:07 on clock when I finished but given 21:28. Timing issues included overall male being 4th oa, the overall female winning in 28 seconds. top master female with high 16 and a 14 yr old with a low 16, both beating the top male (I knew that was wrong since I saw only 2 women in front of me). At first, I won the master title but after several revisions, I wound up as an age group winner, by the grace of God. Also, made the top ten overall, whereas in the other events, I not only would not have placed but would be lucky to be in top ten in my category! Every one who finished was a winner in this event and went off well for an inaugural.