ottawa race weekend & sports

This weekend Michal ran the 5K with some other kids and teachers at her school. I took her to the race and cheered her on. It was exciting! The next day we went and cheered for those who were running the marathon (in the pouring rain!) a few blocks from our house. There was an extraordinary range of people and almost all of them, at 38K, looked great. We would cheer and often people would say "thanks!" and I was thinking, "are you crazy? don't thank us--save your breath!" They had only 4K to go and so we can hope that most of them made it. There was a family in front of us and the father kept calling to the kids to make sure their ball didn't roll into the track of the runners. As they left, he said to his kids, "be sure to clean up your banana peels." And then in an aside, "that would just be too cliché."

Not that many of my friends mentioned sports as a favourite activity (not surprisingly?). Here's Larry's response (which made me smile): 1. Favorite Winter Sport: Drinking Hot Cocoa (Those cups can be heavy); 2. Favorite Winter Sport, Active Division: Cross-Country Skiing with friends.