Sunday night Rebecca arrived with her three daughters (Callie had been here for the previous two weeks), having driven from San Diego in two long days. It was a joyful reunion since Callie has been visiting family for the previous two months.
During the week, I spent a couple of hours beating the carpet of leaves into smaller pieces. This is a dusty job and goes slower than just mowing the lawn. And if the wind kicks up, I end up remowing areas previously mowed due to shifting leaves. Job security.
After sitting on the work bench for three months, I finally installed the new set of points in the Model A; it starts much better now.
The children had fun raking leaves so they could then run and jump in them. Leve, the dog, enjoyed jumping as well. If you look carefully in the second picture you can see a head and two hands peeking out.
With Rebecca and Marian here, we (Callie and I) went running twice this week in preparation for the race on Saturday. I had invited family to join me in the annual 5K, 1/2 half and full marathon that is run locally. This race was sold out, probably due to the number of similar events cancelled this year due to the virus. It is flat and is a Boston Marathon qualifier. Close to 750 participants in all three events. I had 10 family members join me for this event.
Deborah drove up Friday afternoon (Ian drove up later with Sarah after work). Dan White had flown in the night before and spent the night with Miranda, who drove him to Deborah's house so he could drive up with her family. Miranda and Dan arrived in time for dinner. We managed to find bedding down space for all 21 of us.
Most of us were up shortly after 5 AM to prep for a 6 AM drive to the race area, about 12 miles away. Social distancing posed some challenges to their normal routine; they took everyone's temperature, encouraged us to wear face masks up to start time. They had broken the 700 plus runners into about 15 groups, stating about 5 minutes apart, with the marathoners going first. The 5 K runners were last; about 40 minutes later. I really like this race; the course is runner friendly; there is a .5 mile downhill at the beginning which propels me into running faster than my pace, and then I try to maintain that pace. It is level the rest of the way, which is why the distance runners like it; it is a Boston Marathon qualifier. Every finisher gets a medallion and the top three in each age group (every five years) get a medal. Once you complete the race, at the bottom of the hill, they have shuttle buses to run you back to the school where they hand out the awards. They also have food; soups, sandwiches and more.
Dan White and his daughter Marian ran the full marathon; Rebecca ran the half. The remaining 9 of us ran the 5 K. Marian, finished 150 of 221 and ran about 9 minutes faster than her Dad who was 160 of 221. Rebecca had a respectable time finishing 156 of 314 runners. Of the approximately 120 5 K runners, Camden (age 10), was 5th overall and first in his age group, Ethan (age 8) was 10th and 3rd in his age group; Dan McClellan was 31st (1st in his age group); Alex (age 7) was 17 seconds behind his Dad; I was 46th (1st in the over 70 male group), Miranda was less than 2 seconds behind me; Deborah and Samantha were 91st and 92nd. Callie chose not to register to run, but ran anyway. Don't have a time for her though. It was great to have 12 of us participate in all three events and all do well.
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