Last week I wrote about the joys of sleeping in some on Saturdays, but today I have no luxury. We need to catch the 7:35 ferry, as we normally do for work, to travel over to Friday Harbor for The Loop Run, which is the 29th running. I got to run it, I mean this is a tradition. It's County Fair week and The Loop Run, formally called the Journal Run, is apart of it. Like Ginger Rogers was to Fred Astaire. Like McCartney was to Lennen. Like 500 is to Indy. Any one who has ever thought of running, let alone runs, should toe the starting line and run this 8.8K race.
Now there will be some racers, but most of us will take our sweet time and enjoy the views and the course as it winds around Turn Point and the water. The Turn Point Loop is one of my all time favourites, like the trail run up Mt. Helena. Couldn't beat that run. Beautiful, even in January, is the term for it.
At 9:15 am close to 125 runners will be lining up at the cross walk in Front of the movie theatre, and once started we will gleefully head down Spring Street take a right turn on First Street, then a left on Warbass and follow the road until we curse the big hill on the back side, slip past the gavel pit down to Argyle, really curse the Argyle Hill and then into the Fair grounds to be cheered and treated as heroes. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday morning. Well worth getting up at 5:30 for.
