10k'd!

What better way to spend a Sunday morning than to wake up at 5:45am and run your heart out*? November 22nd was my second year running the 10k leg of the Kampala MTN marathon. This year, there were more than 17,000 that ran (jogged, walked, wheeled....) either the full, the half, the 10k, or the wheelchair race, way up from last year's...actually, I can't seem to find record anywhere of how many people ran last year, but there were less.

Really tall Ann and I ran together for the whole of it, which was sweet of her, considering her legs are about 3x the length of my own. She also brought her camera, so we could get really sweaty, red-faced action shots throughout. We placed 3,082nd and 3,083rd out of the 16,294 10k runners, with the exact same time, which I will not disclose, since it was embarrassingly slower than last year's. I blame it on the extra runners we had to dodge, rather than accepting responsibility.

We met up with Sabine and a bunch of others at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) tent afterward, to which I did not belong, but from which I ate. I was home, dunked into, and snoozing next to the pool before I'm usually even awake. What a beautiful day.


*Kind of. We spent the first 3-4k just trying to find enough non-people space to run at a normal pace.