NYRR Kidney Health 10K

[Reagan, in front of the great lawn, before the race]

I thought it was great that the benefit for today’s race was for kidney health. Reagan and I were joking the entire time about that scene from 30 Rock this week, where Dr. Spogemen talks about how kidney transplantation is no laughing matter. Today was a weird race. First of all, we normally drive down to these things. But the last couple of times, we have had kind of close calls when it comes to parking. So we decided to take the train down today. As usual, the A line is doing it’s normal weekend shenanigans, so we took the 1 train. I wasn’t sure how much time to allow, so we ended up getting there totally early. It was kind of cool. There were really low clouds. In fact, where the 1 is above ground at 125th, we couldn’t even see half way across the Hudson. We met up with our friend Mike and one of his friends before the race and chatted it up until about 10 minutes before gun time. It was so foggy, I thought that there was no way it would rain. Whoops. As soon as the race started, so did the rain. By mile 3 it was a full on down pour. Then, suddenly, it stopped. So, the last half of the race was like running in a sauna. Everyone was steaming, there was steam coming off of the ground, etc. I am still feeling a bit under the weather, so I was really struggling with breathing on the hills. Of course my Ipod died again, as soon as it became waterlogged. On top of it all, my timing chip died, so my finish wasn’t recorded. Luckily I was wearing my pedometer, so that I could report my time, later. Taking the 1 train home, we saw these guys singing on the train. Reagan took this picture, then danced. Hahahaha