Don't know about y'all, but if I ever go for a ten mile run it'll be because somebody's after me. Obviously, there's plenty of folks that don't see things that way and I think most of them went for a run in my neck of the woods this morning.
They even had Southern Parkway shut down for miles, the Louisville 10 Mile they called it, the final leg of 'Louisville Triple Crown of Running' that the local newspaper seems to have come up with.
My partner had a friend running in it, and it's not often you can go walking without worrying about stray traffic, so we had to set alarms and wander down. I'd never been to anything like this before, if you don't count cursing them profusely as you try to find a way to work that isn't cut off by the race route.
Welcome to Iroquois Park! Feller there just wanted to know if I'd gotten his good side. The race looped through the park before heading back down Southern whence it came.
Was pleasantly surprised, most of the runners seemed to enjoy the fact I was pointing a camera at them, judging by the amount of hamming it up.
Usually with street photography there's always a certain element of tension and uncertainty, but that was absent this morning. Maybe it's just them morning people types.
This, along with the 5k and 10k that preceded it are kind of the warm up for the Derby mini and full marathons, which are in turn warm ups for a horse race. Nobody takes wagers on anything but the horse race though.
Ran cross-country for three years in school, and hated every mile of it. Still not sure how people actually enjoy running, but I enjoying taking photos of them doing it.
Is it just me, or did the king of England slip across the pond and go for a run?
Does anyone know if mushrooms count as performance-enhancing drugs?
Think I must have scared them somehow, they all ran away. Until next year.