Well what's not to smile about?  Perfect weather, a long holiday weekend.....and I haven't yet run 6.2 miles!

A warm-up jog:  "Maybe I should have had more than 3 sips of coffee."

.....and suddenly, it's the final stretch -- and WOO HOO, this time around, no side cramp!

Me, and the two runners with whom I paced for most of the race (the lady in the hat and I ended up with the exact same finishing time). 

Ouch!  This guy ended up carrying his shoes.  A bad blister, maybe?

The man in the orange shirt and I kept "swapping" the lead up and down hills:  going uphill he led, coming downhill, I led.  And if you look at the next photo....

....yep, in that final stretch (a hill) to the finish line, true to our pattern, he pulled ahead of me!

Ahhhhh.... A blissful post-race stretch (at least, that's what I told my left hip flexor, to get it to stop screaming at me!)

Now, onto the REAL race:  Taking 10,000 photos for The Flexibility Coach online program!

One of the photos from our post-10K photo session, taken about 8 hours after the race

Another photo from that same post-race photo shoot!