Running and beer? Not together.

At least the run and the beer are in the right order.

They're off!

The turkeys and Indians were leading the way at the Thanksgiving Turkey Trot on Nov 26. I stationed myself at the start to get this shot.

Running Trail

I took this a couple of weeks ago. The weather has cooled off a bit since but shirtless running in November is certainly often possible here. The gents were on the Butler Trail on the North Shore of Lady Bird Lake.

Turkey trotting

This shot from our balcony shows runners on Riverside Drive, the Drake Bridge and Cesar Chavez, doing their thing on Thanksgiving Day. Lots of people like to run in these races, that's for sure.

The Joy of Running

We passed this happy group on a Hike and Bike Trail a few days ago.  They were having a great time, as you can see.

Heading for home.

One more shot from the marathon last Sunday, looking east down E. 11th St. and is the last before the short home stretch.  The runners were turning south onto Congress Avenue and sprinting towards the finish line at the 8th St. intersection.  This photo was taken towards the tail end of the race.  If we had walked over about an hour before this, there would have been an absolute wall of people in this shot. Thanks to some high technology gadgets, the announcer was able to boom out the names of some of the runners at the finish just by looking at the numbers on their shirts.

Wrapping it up

Here you see runners who have finished the marathon last Sunday snagging goodies to jack up their blood sugar.  They also got these space capes which looked very high tech.

Carrying the Torch

The day before the big marathon in downtown Austin last Sunday, this runner was carrying some type of symbolic torch. He started his run across the street from our condo.  Linda walked out onto our balcony and snapped this shot.