Run to Feed the Hungry

The numbers were staggering for a short race in a medium-sized city, but the newspaper is reporting some 28,000 people turned out for Sacramento’s Run to Feed the Hungry yesterday. The chip system recorded 15,000 runners and walkers in the 5k and nearly 5,800 in the 10k. To give you an idea of the mass of humanity out there, the 10k winner finished at about the same time as the last walker crossed the starting line.

Mr. Gobbles, pictured here, finished 4th in the 5k.

Despite all the hype and the press coverage, it somehow got lost that we even had an Olympian in the race. Magdalena Lewy Boulet, one of the three women to represent the U.S. in the marathon in Beijing, finished second in the 10k.

My own race was decent. I ran a 49:55, more than 3 minutes slower than the PR I set in last year’s race, but consistent with my times over the last few weeks. It was good enough for 683rd in the field of 5,782 and 42nd of 244 in my age group.