On Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, I ran the Somerville Road Runners' Gobble Gobble Race. This was a nice little 4 mile race that started in Davis Square, Somerville, and ended in almost the same spot in Davis Square. The race started at 9AM, which I believe was moved up a couple hours from previous years. This was a pretty cool race- there were maybe 1500 runners total. The temperature was pretty mild for Thanksgiving. C and I finished in 34:30. If I were running the race alone, I think I could've finished in 28:00 if I had really pushed it.
As this was a Thanksgiving race, I thought it would be fun to dress up. Pilgrims wore tuxes right? Well, they at least wore hats resembling this little baby I picked up from the store. At least in pictures, movies, etc. of Pilgrims and Puritans they do.
They gave out cool brown long sleeve shirts that proclaimed 'GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE' on the front of the shirt. There were no vendors giving out cool free stuff at this race, but that's OK, the shirt made up for it.
The race ended right in front of Sligo's in Davis Square. If you have never been to this place, the word to sum it up is Dive. This is a real local bar with cheap ass beer, and lots of sketchy old dudes who I imagine go there all the time. What was interesting was the fact that there were a bunch of old sketchy dudes standing in the doorway of the bar as the race finished. These weren't people who had just finished the race and went to the bar because they were serving post race food like The Burren appeared to be doing. So what I'm wondering is why these dudes were in this bar at 9:35 AM on a Thursday. Is the bar always open that early during the week? Did it just open early for Thanksgiving? And if so, why were there dudes there that early? Ahh, I love Davis Square. It's really up and coming and becoming more high end, but it still has a lot of blue collar townie charm.
Next long race: Hyannis Half Marathon end of Feb. 2008
Next short race: ??? Maybe something before February, but probably not.
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