Today, I ran in the second annual Houghton Bridge Run. Each year the proceeds of the event go to help someone new from the Houghton area. This year, proceeds were donated to help Rachel, a local girl with cancer. As far as I know, the event raised roughly $3,000 for Rachel and her family. It was nice to see the community come together to help.
The run went very well as far as I was concerned. We started at the "Chutes and Ladders" park in Houghton and made our way to the bridge. The bridge has two levels and they lowered it from its usual summertime raised position so that we could run across the bottom level which connects to the snowmobile trails, while traffic used the upper level. Once into Hancock, the trail started going uphill. The run continued uphill until the turnaround point and then we followed the same course back downhill.
I finished the 10K (6.2 mile) run in a time of 35:18.80 according to my watch. The results haven't been posted yet when I was writing this. I took 3rd place in the men under 30 class for my race. I was quite pleased with my performance. Hopefully I'll be able to run this event again next year.
At the start line.
Closing in on the finish.
Finishing!
Rachel (in the white cap) and her family.
My 3rd place ribbon.
4 comments:
It's good to see you plan to avoid gaining those "freshman 10" pounds, Dan. The pictures are great. Who gets the photo credits?
Global Voices, at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, is an interesting source of photo blogs from around the world. I think the site has an RSS feed just for photo blogs.
Thanks. Photo credits go to Ashby, my girlfriend. I tried talking her into running as well, but I'm glad she decided to stay and take pictures. Some of her friends ran the 5K race, and she got pictures for them as well.
Hey, Ashby! Nice job---and I mean that ambiguously. (smiling)
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