The Belmar Five took place this past weekend on Saturday July 11. It's a nice flat five mile race at the New Jersey Shore. 
There's a shot with me right in the middle of the pack at some point along the route. I've been out running a few days a week lately but by the finish of this one I realized that I may not be doing it enough. The days after found me pretty sore. It was a fun race on a beautiful morning and summer days at the Jersey shore are the best! One of the greatest things about these organized races is the turn out of people to support the runners along the route. People with signs and noise makers cheering everyone on gives the whole event a festive atmosphere not to mention a little pep in your step. There were boom boxes and stereo's playing music all along the way. Yes! You can be sure that the Boss and Born to Run were heard on many of those sound systems. There were also people with garden hoses offering any runner who was interested a shower as they ran by. At one of the watering stations a little boy politely asked me if he could splash me with a cup of water. It was impossible to say no to such a well mannered kid and I said Sure! The next thing I heard was oohh! me too! Me Too! from all of the other kids and was soon soaked. My goal was to finish under an hour and I met that with
about 7 minutes to spare. Jared also joined me on this run and here are shots of each of us crossing the finish line. Unknown to us at the time, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was in the race as well. Here is a picture of him responding to questions from reporters about how he felt about coming in behind me in the race. Rather than comment he handed them a Corzine 09 flyer. No that's not true! Had he actually been asked this, he would have not been incorrect to mention that I was only about 50 seconds ahead of him and that I didn't stop to shake any hands along the route. Not to mention our age difference which really isn't as great as I might like it to be and the fact that he has a bum knee due to his much publicized car accident a few years ago. 
There's a shot with me right in the middle of the pack at some point along the route. I've been out running a few days a week lately but by the finish of this one I realized that I may not be doing it enough. The days after found me pretty sore. It was a fun race on a beautiful morning and summer days at the Jersey shore are the best! One of the greatest things about these organized races is the turn out of people to support the runners along the route. People with signs and noise makers cheering everyone on gives the whole event a festive atmosphere not to mention a little pep in your step. There were boom boxes and stereo's playing music all along the way. Yes! You can be sure that the Boss and Born to Run were heard on many of those sound systems. There were also people with garden hoses offering any runner who was interested a shower as they ran by. At one of the watering stations a little boy politely asked me if he could splash me with a cup of water. It was impossible to say no to such a well mannered kid and I said Sure! The next thing I heard was oohh! me too! Me Too! from all of the other kids and was soon soaked. My goal was to finish under an hour and I met that with
about 7 minutes to spare. Jared also joined me on this run and here are shots of each of us crossing the finish line. Unknown to us at the time, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was in the race as well. Here is a picture of him responding to questions from reporters about how he felt about coming in behind me in the race. Rather than comment he handed them a Corzine 09 flyer. No that's not true! Had he actually been asked this, he would have not been incorrect to mention that I was only about 50 seconds ahead of him and that I didn't stop to shake any hands along the route. Not to mention our age difference which really isn't as great as I might like it to be and the fact that he has a bum knee due to his much publicized car accident a few years ago. He also has an entire state to manage where let's face it, my responsibilities are on a bit of a smaller scale.
Here's to all the runners in the Belmar Five!
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