"Though she be but little, she is fierce." This is a great Shakespearean quote to describe a night of running with friends. I ran the Midsummer Night Dream 5K last year with a friend and had fun, so I decided to run again this year. This is a fun little race put on by Scallywompus Events. It's women only and filled with Martinis, Mimosas, and Massages. Starts at 9 PM on a Friday night, which is a bit dark for me, but ok.
After work, I picked up Sorority Girl and we headed to Brackenridge Park to pick up our packets and T-shirts. Parking was already pretty crowded, but not unexpected. We walked from our car to the registration to the car and back to the central area. We will call it a warm-up.
We had our bibs set up and decided to look around. Yep, vodka samples and mimosas. The vodka line was long and I hate lines. The mimosa line wasn't bad, so we thought we would have ourselves a refreshing drink before starting the evening. What better way to race than after a little beverage? Right?
Since lots of folks were wearing fairy wings, we thought the winged idea would be fun. Well ... at least feathers and we had our INKnBURN. Sorority Girl was in Flutter and I was in Peacock, just like last year.
We relaxed, took some jumping pics, and were shooe'd off part of the grass because they had just put down some kind of treatment. Weed or bug killer? I don't know, but we followed rules. At the start line, we met up with MamaCostey and the Reservist from work. The Reservist is a faster runner so she took off after the start. Sorority Girl is doing OK, so she ran ahead of us. MamaCostey and I are both on the walking list these days and we hung together. Start line was crowded and slow, but eventually it spread out.
The course is run on golf-cart paths along the golf course. It has the ability to get crowded and there were times where it could be tough to get around people moving slower. The volunteers were amazing and supportive. So nice along the course and I never felt low on water (even though I carry my own). There was one area where very briefly, there is bidirectional running and the volunteers were great about letting us know it was coming up and to keep to the right.
Mama Costey and I chatted and caught up on the events of the week. We reached the finish and she headed out to find the Reservist and I went to find Sorority Girl. It was hot. Mosquitoes were out. The Reservist wanted to head home quick. Sorority Girl was a bit overheated, so we sat down for a bit. There was food, but not vegetarian or vegan, so I skipped it. I honestly don't even know what it was. Medal has a bottle opener. That's cool.
