Moist Half Marathon Photos

(If you are here to vote for the “Gnarliest Injury Photo Contest” scroll down to the previous post or click here.)

A few weeks ago, I ran the Winter Carnival Half Marathon on a chilly, wet day, while taking video along the way. Click here to see the video.

Here are some “official” photos from that day:

Chatting with Jenny and Guy beforehand.


Mark’s photo of me taking video just before the start (0:12 of my video).


Securian’s “mascot” leading the start of the race.


Photos from the same photographer: around mile 1 and mile 12.
(Note the camera in hand!)

At the turn-around, if you watch the video I took, you hear me shouting for Gary (from 0:48 - 0:53). It was for Gary Westland from Charities Challenge - he was hosting a party and snapping shots of runners at the turn-around. (BTW, check out all of his images of runners at the turn-around here.) I caught his attention JUST as I was running by. If you listen to the video right after I turn around, you hear Gary saying, “...it’s ‘Steve in a Speedo’ man! I gotcha buddy!” Here are the 2 shots he got of me:

Taking video as I round the cone.


Running back towards downtown, 6.55 miles to go!


Awkwardly hitting the finishline while filming and hitting my watch.

Remember my New Year’s Resolution of trying to get a shot of me hitting my watch at the finishline of every race? So far in 2010 I’m 1-for-1! Sweet!

Oh, and here are 2 interesting photos I found in the mix. Here’s a freezer running the race. (As in the kind of freezer you have in your basement filled with frozen pizza, microwave dinners, and people who’ve pissed you off.) She has the name of a local appliance company on her chest:

Nice work, crazy lady!!

And this guy must have had some problems with his racing flats. You can see his shoes tucked into his shorts around mile 12 (on the left), and then he pulled out his shoe with the chip on it as he went over the timing mat (on the right):

I wonder how long he ran barefoot!? Crazy man!

The worst part: that shoeless guy finished about a minute faster than me, in 1:27:xx!!

So if you didn’t see the video I took along the way, click here to check it out. And make sure to scroll down to yesterday’s post to vote for the “gnarliest” injury photo!

AND, make sure to stop back tomorrow as Road ID will be giving away any style of Road ID to one lucky commenter on tomorrows post. Don’t miss it!