I’ve Got My Running Friends to Keep Me Warm

I had to drop off race bibs and cool running shirt to the third member of the relay I’m running with tomorrow.  It will be me, the Gazelle and a very nice lady named Chris.  I just met Chris last week.  She is running in place of my nephew who decided that doing a 5 km with a girl friend is better than running with his dad and aunt.

I dropped the race stuff off at a Cafe where a bunch of runners were getting together for a bit of breakfast before heading off to the Around the Bay expo.

I had planned on staying for a minute,  just dropping the stuff off and leaving.  But it turned into a half hour super session.  I love that about runners.  You can meet up with one or two and before you know it, you are talking like life long friends.

Today we were talking about the commemorative chip that Around the Bay organizers have decided to use.  It is unlike anything I’ve seen.  Or that anyone else has seen.   Not that I’m complaining.  I’ll take a picture of it and post it.  It is really cool.

That lead to a discussion about how we are going to get it off and on at the relay point. Especially if the weather man, Matt Hayes, is correct about the predicted weather.  It is supposed to rain and be windy.

But we runners are a hardy lot.  I’ve decided to coat my running jacket in a water retardant spray.  Hopefully some of the water will stay on the outside of my jacket.

If I do get rained on, it won’t matter, I have my friends to keep me warm.

I’m going to the Expo later today.  I’ll try to post more pictures from there.  I’m anticipating it being really, really busy there.  But I love the buzz that surrounds an event where lots of runners get together.  And the energy!  Who needs runners high, when you have all that energy?