Danvers 5k

All in all, considering the past few weeks climatic punishment of precipitation, I would say we had some rather good weather for our little run this week. Not that bad weather would deter runners like you from showing up anyway.  

So as far as show ups go, we had 42  runners show up ready to taunt mother natures wrath and keep the D5K fire burning bright. With  a special guest appearance and late run by our very own “Herbalicious”.

While we are on special guest appearances, I must send out some love to Aaron Toleos. Aaron brought down his son Adam to do the D5K, he is the fastest 7 month year old I have ever seen. Along with being the youngest official D5Ker, he did an exceptional job carrying his dads ass around the course. Good job Adam.

We had 3 first time runners this week, along with 3 personal records, so Kudos and welcome are in order.

Special thanks for there generosity this week got to:

Aaron Toleos

Alison Moore

Beth Picardi

Aaron and Alison each brought in a 12 pack of Sam Adams for your drinking needs. And of course Beth is very pro-hydration, by supplying us with a case of water to keep us all vertical after the run. Thank you guys very much.

see you next week.

Was there something in the Air? Maybe it was the upcoming inclement weather, or our new aerial advertising. Whichever, runners were crawling out of the woodwork tonight. We hosted a total of 60 runners this evening, the most we have had in quite some time. As well we were shy an easy half dozen regulars, so who knows what could have happened if everyone showed up.

Among the 60 runners, 7 of them were first first time D5K’ers, one of which “Henry Winfield” came in first place overall, not bad for his first time. There were 6 Personal Records sprinkled on top for a little extra flavor too.

Special thanks to the runners who came down representing Great Oak School, we hope you enjoyed the run.

We will see y’all next Wednesday.

D5K.

47 runners, 10 personal records, 5 first timers, and yet another new course record. To think, at 6:40 I was sitting by myself flippin popsicle sticks and crackin open a fresh brewsky, what a difference 20 minutes can make.

Junyong Pak must have really been listening when I was giving out some free pointers, because he laid  down a 16:46 crushing the previous course record formerly held by “Junyong Pak” Not too bad.

It was a record night for our regulars. With Se7en of the 10 PR’s set by our faithful D5K’ers.

Diana Davis decided not only that tonight would be a good night to try the D5K for the first time, why not go ahead and be the first female finisher to boot. My knid of thinking.

A warm welcome to the 5 first timers who wore out some rubber on the D5K course on the fast path to glory and immortality.

Nice job done by all this week, I look forward to next Wednesday, who knows what could happen.

looking for some feedback. Be honest though, I can take it. Leave a comment with your thoughts.

Well if you include Oliver the dog we had “12″ new runners this week. That may be a record, if not then certainly close to it. Throw “5″ Personal Records in there with the 50 runners that made up our field, and you got yourself a pretty good little Wednesday night. 

Special Kudos out to Aaron Toleos this week. He did his first D5K in his new Vibram 5 fingers. They are basically made to mimic barefoot running. Super Cool, look into them.

On a note, I would like to remind everyone that we are still collecting non-perishable food items for the local food bank. This goes a long way for the people who need a little help in these trying times, thank you to everyone for the support.

On yet another note, I am thinking about D5K t-shirts, and wanted some feedback on this weeks imagery as a potential shirt design. So if you are here on Wednesday let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,  adam.