He survived!

Lenny did the 30k Around the Bay race in Hamilton today. It is North America's oldest road race (even older than the Boston Marathon!). There were about 7200 30km runners on top of a few hundred walkers and relay teams. Surprisingly it was quasi-easy to find him although I may invest in gifting him a brightly coloured shirt or a leprosy bell or something for the next race ;)

The first 26km went really well but then dehydration cramps set in pretty badly and he had to walk in the cold (-5 without the strong winds) for the last 4 km. All in all it took 3 hours 45 minutes which was about 45 minutes over his goal time. I'm still Really proud of him for not pushing himself beyond his body's limits. There was one guy who was so dehydrated that he completely collapsed and started vomiting and the whole bit right in front of me. The medics were there within 5 minutes but the poor guy was so embarrased and so ticked off that he couldn't make it the last 250m. SO glad Lenny didn't let his dehydration get to this point. Anyhoo, on with the pictures!
The race ended at the Copps' Colloseum and the inside was surprisingly full of people watching.
Here's my Lennykins about 500m from the finish. Still smiling. Always a good sign :)
Lenny was chased by a team of tutu wearers to the finish line.
Here's Lenny (in the blue top, near the centre) just leaving the shute.

This last picture was from a new yarn store in Hamilton that was supposedly having their grand opening this weekend. Not only did they have a handmade sign on the door saying they would not be open Sunday afterall, they didn't even really have a store sign, have one sketched-out website, and was in a quasi-sketchy area of town. Won't be visiting there anytime soon again...Well that's pretty much all we did today. This afternoon we've just been chilling in front of the tv enjoying the fact that we both have couches to lay down on today. I went to a group meeting for my Friday HR project and learned that I'm actually more prepared than everybody else so I'm feeling good about that. I should be able to finish marking the rest of my students' papers tongiht so overall I would say this has been an extremely productive day.

Other small item of good news: I was able to get rid of about 6 hours of work shifts for tonight so I'll have a lot more time to start/finish papers. Yay for relieving some stress!

Alright, off to workee!