Inter-run-tion

So Allison and I ran a 10K in Brescia this weekend. It was fun, and I clocked in at just a shade under a decade. Hal Higdon of runnersworld.com was a great coach, but Allison was better, and we were both able to finish. Afterwards, in our hotel room, we posed for this shot. As you can see, we are both wearing medals--they gave these to EVERYONE who crossed the finish line, but you better believe we told ourselves what big winners we were anyway. And I am flexing in this picture--QUIET! I already know you can't tell, but that's what happens when you have no muscle in the region of the bicep. So keep you're jokes to yourself, because I'M NOT LISTENING.

They had a marathon that startted at the same time as the 10K. The elite runners are so fast that we just had time to run our 6.2 miles, walk the 5 minutes or so back to our hotel, take a quick shower, pack, and walk the 5 minutes or so back to see the first finisher from the 26.2 mile race. Here is the winner, who is a Kenyan (as was the second-place finihser; Kenyan also won the Rome Marathon). This, ladies and gentlemen, is a very, very fast man, and he makes 26 miles look effortless. He was like a bounding deer or something.

And here are the top three finishers at the awards ceremony with their trophies.