Race for the Cure

I signed up for the Race for the Cure 5K in Rome tomorrow, so today I went to the ‘Race Village’ to complete the registration process, and they gave me a ‘Race Bag’. From the contents of this bag, one can tell that this event is directed toward the fairer sex (for obvious reasons). Here is a sampling of what I found, besides the t-shirt, when I dug into the bag:

*Retinol Anti-Cellulite Modelling: Moisturising Slimming Care: “Reduces the ‘orange peel’ appearance and redefines the silhouette’
*Neutrogena Hand Cream (‘Assorbimento Rapido’; ‘Formula Norevegese’, in case you were curious)
*Johnson’s Baby Bedtime Bath (‘Dolci Notti’); so maybe the event is also directed at babies

And–wait for it–a GIANT box of ‘Carefree’ maxi-pads, using the innovative ‘Triplefresh [TM] System’. The box contains ‘40 + 4 gratis’, which seems like a hardy number to me. Then again, I don’t know very much about these things.

The run seems to have a nice route: it starts near the Baths of Caracalla, goes by Circus Maximus, the old Republican temples of the Forum Boarium, past the Theater of Marcellus, through Piazza Venezia, past the various Fora, around the Colosseum, past the Arch of Constantine (my favorite Roman monument), and back to the Baths.