Turkey Trot

[Teenage Dirtbag]

Anybody doing one? I'm going to be up in the Pineview area for Thanksgiving, and I found a 5 miler in Ogden. The entry fee is food or money for the homeless shelters. Should be fun.

http://www.ogdenregional.com/CommCal.asp

[SteelBlue]

I'm doing the Redding Turkey Trot, a 6 miler. I haven't run in 2 weeks and I'm hoping the foot has healed.

[bluegoose]

I'm in charge of tactical support (code: watching the kids while my wife runs) for our turkey trot this year. We've got a decent run going here in Redding. Typical turnout is over 2,000 runners and walkers. Weather should be perfect at about 45-50 degrees at the start.

No, as for me, I'm saving it all for the turkey bowl afterward. People have been asking when my return will be since my 8 TD pass performance against SteelBlue's band of footballers about 6 years ago. I'm pretty sure I torched Steel about 5 of those times to a guy with a broken hand wearing a cast. True story. Just ask him.

[Teenage Dirtbag]

So mine turned out to be interesting. They had a little old Catholic nun come out and bless the runners, which was nice. I can use all the help I can get, and since my traditional prayers haven't been making me any faster, I'm willing to try anything.

The race was advertised as a 5 mile run, 2 mile walk. I heard a guy in the crowd say it was supposed to be a 5 miler last year, and wasn't. So I wasn't sure what to expect. We started in the hospital parking lot, which was pretty narrow. I looked at my Garmin about .50 mile in: 11:20/mile.

Once we got out in the neighborhoods it spread out and I was able to hit the gas. Once we made the final turn and the finish line was in sight, I knew we were going to be well short of 5 miles. My Garmin showed it as 3.96 miles. Pretty funny. I don't know why they don't just say it's a 4 miler, nobody cares. I finished in 31:09. About 7:52/mile. I think the little nun's blessing worked wonders. Does anybody know who the Patron Saint of runners is? I need to get me one of those.

[Babs]

Does anybody know who the Patron Saint of runners is? I need to get me one of those.

Turns out there's no patron saint for runners specifically. But the patron saint of athletes is Sebastian, who, for the crime of professing Christ, was tied to a tree, shot full of arrows, and abandoned to his fate. He was discovered there by a fellow Christian who nursed him back to health just in time for him to be reapprehended and beaten to death.

He is also the patron saint of soldiers and those afflicted by the bubonic plague.

[TripletDaddy]

Turns out there's no patron saint for runners specifically. But the patron saint of athletes is Sebastian, who, for the crime of professing Christ, was tied to a tree, shot full of arrows, and abandoned to his fate. He was discovered there by a fellow Christian who nursed him back to health just in time for him to be reapprehended and beaten to death.

He is also the patron saint of soldiers and those afflicted by the bubonic plague.

This type of persecution is nothing.

Get back to me when Sebastian gets beer thrown on him or when drunken Ute fans run up to him and scream in his face.

[il Padrino Ute]

This type of persecution is nothing.

Get back to me when Sebastian gets beer thrown on him or when drunken Ute fans run up to him and scream in his face.

So true.

Death is nothing compared to what we Ute fans usually do to BYU fans.