Argh. Didn't make it out this morning for my early ride - got up in time, but too many emails already in the work queue (darn those European counterparts of mine). Anyway, I will try to avoid ranting about work...
This evening is the JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge, a 3.5 mile road race through the Back Bay streets of Boston. I've done this race for about 11 years now, missed one due to our company being acquired which left us no funding that year. I should actually say that I've organized my company team's participation in this race for all these years. Back in the hey-day, I assembled a team of ~34 runners; this year we're a bit low with a team of 12. Anyway, just trying to bring people together to be healthy and social - pluses are that some of the entry fees go to local charities (this and last year to Camp Harbor View) and we get a free t-shirt from the company, who doesn't want one of those!? Anyway, it really is a social run for the most part - 12,000 runners tightly crammed in at the start makes it hard to get running in proper stride for awhile, and then it's always a constant obstacle course swerving in between folks (e.g. walkers) that seeded themselves too close to the start. Anyway, yeah, it's all about the t-shirt and post-race festivities...
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