Lighthouse Run on Key Biscayne
Today they will be running in the 36th Lighthouse Run on Key Biscayne. Actually the race is probably over by now.
Almost thirty two years ago I started jogging with friends on Saturday mornings Training runs began at 7:00am at the Parrot Jungle and we ran through one of the nicest neighborhoods in Miami past houses where the richest people in town lived. Times have changed and I'm not sure we could run the same route we used to run. The folks across from Fairchild Gardens like their privacy and it looks like gates exist to keep the runners out so the landscaping people can work without distraction on the weekends.
Labor Day began the "fall racing season", their would be 10k races every weekend until Memorial Day. There were between 500 to 1500 runners each week at the races. I became on of the committed who ran a lot and my knees and joints remind me regularly.
T-shirts, a beer truck, or if the race was a big one even Ben&Jerry's sent some ice cream. All for $10.00. My father was suspect of my training habits because beer was a part of my running ritual and on the weekend I had drunk a beer before he got to the golf course.
The Lighthouse Run had the prettiest t-shirts, and until Hurricane Andrew the included a lot of shade while you ran and some prime oceanfront views.
Tuesday, I'll have lunch with my running buddies. I still do a lot of walking, they ride their bicycles and we will have a beer and discuss retirement, doctor appointments, family, and I'm sure someone will mention the Lighthouse Run
Almost thirty two years ago I started jogging with friends on Saturday mornings Training runs began at 7:00am at the Parrot Jungle and we ran through one of the nicest neighborhoods in Miami past houses where the richest people in town lived. Times have changed and I'm not sure we could run the same route we used to run. The folks across from Fairchild Gardens like their privacy and it looks like gates exist to keep the runners out so the landscaping people can work without distraction on the weekends.
Labor Day began the "fall racing season", their would be 10k races every weekend until Memorial Day. There were between 500 to 1500 runners each week at the races. I became on of the committed who ran a lot and my knees and joints remind me regularly.
T-shirts, a beer truck, or if the race was a big one even Ben&Jerry's sent some ice cream. All for $10.00. My father was suspect of my training habits because beer was a part of my running ritual and on the weekend I had drunk a beer before he got to the golf course.
The Lighthouse Run had the prettiest t-shirts, and until Hurricane Andrew the included a lot of shade while you ran and some prime oceanfront views.
Tuesday, I'll have lunch with my running buddies. I still do a lot of walking, they ride their bicycles and we will have a beer and discuss retirement, doctor appointments, family, and I'm sure someone will mention the Lighthouse Run
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