Fast Finishers

Today is my mother's birthday and also the birthday of a very close friend. Mom is attending a funeral and so is Matt. His uncle passed recently. It will be a family reunion.

Before the funeral, Matt managed to run in our local hospital's annual fun run. He had been training and did better than he thought he would.

The girl trained, too, but not as much as last year, so she did not beat her time, which was her goal. I was very proud of her though because she ended up being the 4th girl across the line in her race and was not bent-out-of-shape in any way. Then, there was kind of a "grand champion" award, which bumped her into the bronze medal. She was tickled.

Bad camera operation day for me as inadvertently had the timer setting on. That resulted in a shot of another runner. Then, my battery was dead and I didn't have another. Poor planning. So, I had fun with this image, trying to make lemonade out of a lemon.

These were the top 3 out of 5 female finishers, waiting to cheer on the adults. We were especially interested in the women runners, to whom we shouted, "girl power" as they ran by.