Run Forrest Run

With the camels in Costa Rica and not much happening this week I am going to tap into something which happened last Sunday. I ran the Shamrock Shuffle which for those of you who are not from here is a green-themed obstacle race through downtown Chicago. The obstacles of course are the people whom you have to joust with on the way to the finish (What's with snails starting the race ahead of the faster runners). The race is the biggest collection of Caucasians outside of the Nascar. (What's with people's fascination with running in freezing weather)
So with nominal training I attempted to run 5 miles in horrible freezing weather. Of course I sleep walked through the race. Piece of cake... NOT.

Positives from the race, almost no 9 year old girls passed me. Negatives from the race, Big Chicken beat me.

So for those of you who think running the race with no training is impossible, the fact is if I did it so can you. However, would I advise it... no!! At my fitness level... hell no!!! I'm still tired with all that running.