St. Paul Winter Carnival 10K Photos!

Late last week, the photos came in from the St. Paul Winter Carnival Half Marathon 10K (shortened due to the cold). Below are some good ones.

I found Pharmie, Borsch, and myself in the lobby after getting our numbers. Look to the far upper left. That’s Borsch and I chatting, and Pharmie with her head down pinning on her number:

This is just after the start, and you can see me in grey on the right:

I couldn’t find photos of our whole crew, but I found some. Here’s BaddApple part way into his 5K:

And here’s Badd’s son his way to a 2 minute 5K PR!

Here’s Jen flying during the 10K:

And at the finish of the 10K, here’s Pharmie bringing it home:

And here I am coming to the line:

That’s a pretty weird finishers photo. My head and gloves are covered with ice. I have a camera dangling from my wrist (I held it during the run, I just let it fly at the end so I could hit my watch). And remember the “duct tape shoe warming” trick that I talked about in my race report? Well, I can’t just throw away a perfectly good roll of duct tape after using it! So I wore the roll as a bracelet for the length of the race. Weird, I know.

Also, the finishers list has been updated, and I moved up a spot to 17th overall (which is 6th out of 43 in my age group). They also upped the number of 10.25 K runners to 734. So I can’t complain (even though I wanted to run that faster). Here’s the updated list:

Here are some other random/great photos from the race. The police volunteers were actually high-5ing the runners! I’ve never seen that before, and I think that’s awesome!

When Borsch and I were standing around at the finish, we were admiring the CLOUDS of breath we would see coming out of the runners. That’s what happens when warm, moist air hits -10 air.

There's "crazy," and then there's "just plain dumb." This guy might be the latter. (Remember, it was around -10 with a wind chill that knocked it down to about -25.) He ran it with bare legs under a kilt, 1 sweatshirt, no gloves, and no hat. He may be dead by now:

And check out all this sweet “ice art:”

This guy looks crazy!


Oh my.


I talked to this guy at the turn-around.
I will never forget that goatee.

That's all folks! Now, who wants to come to MN and do the half marathon with me next year?!? I'll be there!