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Brian and I ran the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon, a 13.1 mile race, on May 3. It starts in downtown Indy, goes out to the Speedway, around the race track, and back to downtown. Shortly after the start, the race course goes past the zoo. A large and small elephant were looking down the hill at us, probably wonder what was causing the stampede of 35,000 runners. There are various entertainers along the way; mostly bands, but two of our favorites were the Circle City Cloggers and the square dancers. (The square dancers even had black and white checkered petticoats or ties to keep with the 500 race theme.) We were out for an enjoyable tour of town, not worried about any speed records. Brian set the pace, keeping back my early-race enthusiasm so that we could maintain a 10-minute pace and finish in 2 hours, 11 minutes rather than speeding through the first half and blowing out our knees/hips/quads by mile 10.
We had a great time seeing my brother and sister-in-law play softball, hanging out with my parents, visiting my grandparents, and trying to do enough walking to keep our legs from getting sore and stiff. Spring is about two weeks ahead of New England, so there were lots of tulips, flowering trees and lilacs in bloom.