A nice 38 degree summer race

Jackie and I on the bus to the Bayshore start line-- around 5 a.m. and the sun was just coming up--that dawn with the rosy red fingers as Homer calls her--spreading across the windows of our bus--made being up so early not so bad.

Here is where it did get bad:





FREEZING!! That plastic poncho might as well have been dipped in ice--did not keep out the 38 degree wind and drizzle as we waited our nearly two hours of rotating through the bathroom lines until the start of the race.

It did warm though to a perfect 50 degrees as the race went on and the sun broke through the drizzle--turned out to be another beautiful Bayshore race--lake on one side, nice breeze, and sprawling lawns on the other side--with families sitting on their lawn chairs cheering us on and some offering water--one family had a bucket of candy for the runners.