In honor of my nephew attempting this as his first "real" 5K, where he was going to be keeping pace with adults, for this year's race my sister and I … MORE
In honor of my nephew attempting this as his first “real” 5K, where he was going to be keeping pace with adults, for this year’s race my sister and I went all out and bought some new costumes. Well … if all out means spending $10 on a crappy (yet surprisingly well made) stewardess costume, and a pilot shirt and hat for my nephew.
LOL!
So yes, it’s true. After several years of my nephew participating in various 5Ks that we all attended, for some reason this year he decided he wanted to graduate from participating (walking with his dad) to actually RACING. Hooray!
Knowing this would be a pretty big bite to chew for my nephew, who hasn’t done any training to cover a 5K distance, my sister and I decided to once again use the 2/1 interval function on my GPS watch…
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Gandy Dancer Fly In 5K (Called It)
In honor of my nephew attempting this as his first "real" 5K, where he was going to be keeping pace with adults, for this year's race my sister and I … MORE
In honor of my nephew attempting this as his first “real” 5K, where he was going to be keeping pace with adults, for this year’s race my sister and I went all out and bought some new costumes. Well … if all out means spending $10 on a crappy (yet surprisingly well made) stewardess costume, and a pilot shirt and hat for my nephew.
LOL!
So yes, it’s true. After several years of my nephew participating in various 5Ks that we all attended, for some reason this year he decided he wanted to graduate from participating (walking with his dad) to actually RACING. Hooray!
Knowing this would be a pretty big bite to chew for my nephew, who hasn’t done any training to cover a 5K distance, my sister and I decided to once again use the 2/1 interval function on my GPS watch…
Gandy Dancer Fly In Trail Run 5K 2015
All in all, late start aside, this was a great repeat race. With an improved shirt, a 2nd place medal for my sister, and an always delicious pancake breakfast ... … MORE
All in all, late start aside, this was a great repeat race. With an improved shirt, a 2nd place medal for my sister, and an always delicious pancake breakfast … how could we not be happy?
Gandy Dancer Fly In Trail Run 5K 2013
The course isn't to terribly exciting, as you can see on the map. The majority of the race was run on the Gandy Dancer, a crushed gravel recreational trail for … MORE
The course isn’t to terribly exciting, as you can see on the map. The majority of the race was run on the Gandy Dancer, a crushed gravel recreational trail for non motorized traffic that circles the airport on it’s way in/out of Siren, with less than 1 mile on paved road before transitioning onto the grassy air field. Where it got exciting for me was towards the end, at the “race enter mark”.
In case you can’t tell from the map, that’s when you exit off of Airport Road, and actually run onto the active airstrip area.
Wait… WHAT?!
Well, technically we weren’t running on an active airstrip, we were just on the grassy field leading up to the airstrip. Which means that you get an up close and personal experience with anyone flying in to the breakfast. In fact, when I was heading down the grassy knoll, two antique war planes flew over my head. Pretty neat!
PLUS! Runners breakfast is included in race registration fees, which everyone else has to pay $5 for. Breakfast in 2013 included wild rice pancakes, ham, milk, juice, coffee, sliced cheese (yes, this is WI and the breakfast is a fund raiser for the local dairy group)… and ICE CREAM. Heck yes! Ice cream at breakfast. How can you say no to that?!