Hamilton 'Around the Bay Race'

This morning my sister and I ran the annual Around the Bay Race in Hamilton, ON. We split the 30k circuit of Hamilton harbour between us as a relay team. Yesterday we drove the course and, neither of us having a strong preference, flipped a coin to see who would start and who would finish. I ended up with the start.

What a scrum! 6000 people out of the gate at 9:30 sharp. I think I actually managed to start running freely around the 3k mark. It quite a sight, but the sound of all those expensive running shoes pattering on the pavement was hypnotic, like some tribal beat.

The scowl is for the dude who walked in front of the camera while the shot was being taken, either he was really fast or my I need to encorporate scowling into my training regiment.

This dude was my pace setter, I actually fell pretty far behind him. He finished the whole 30k in less than 3 hours. Good on ya! Alien man.
I finished at the 15k mark and handed of the time chip to my sister. My legs felt like they were replaced with stilts of agony around the 12k mark.

My big sis and I! She finished the race in Copps Coliseum and here we sat at the end of it all, fearful of staying too still lest our muscles atrophied.

When I was at the 13k mark, someone told me the leader was already at the 26k mark...that was 1:14 into the race!! We finished with a combined time of 3:04. I plan to learn how to run across water for next year, it will save much time.