Mid Summer Race

Midsummer Race Weekend

Get yourself ready for a short sweet race this Saturday, with an 8:30 start at the East Lawn Cemetary. When my friend Sal told me of his plans to start up a new Sacramento 5K race at this location, I had to laugh inwardly at his uncontained excitement every time he spoke of it. To me the thought of a race start and finish in a cemetary was a crazy awkward and somewhat morbid idea. I envisioned some people standing around in reverent silent respect and others in their unrestrained cheering of friend or famiy, jumping up and down way too close to someone in a state of eternal repose.

As it turns out the venue is quite beautiful and the race itself is truly one of the most well put together races in the city. East Lawn and surronding neighborhood provide a shade laden tranquil course around some of the most upper crust homes in all of Sacramento.

A belated mention of the San Diego Marathon and Half Marathon which six of our team participated in, Emily, Andy, Jim, Eric, Julie and Tamara.

The pros -
As a destination race San Diego has it all, beautiful beaches, great restaurants, plenty to do besides race.

The cons -
The race is touted as scenic with a big finish at Sea World. The whole group thought that besides Balboa Park and parts of downtown the scenery was rather disappointing. As far as Sea World, you end up in the parking lot. Pure hot asphalt were it took hours to reconnect and then be transported back to hotels.

Good luck to Becky, Tamara and Jim who will be racing in the San Francisco Marathon this Sunday. Should be a lovely weekend for racing.