Pilgrims in the Snow

Snow and fine sneet/icy snow during the whole morning
Temperature during the race today: 34 degrees (that's thirty four degrees!)
Temperature last year: 68 degrees (is that 2X as warm??)
Today the wind was recorded at 26 miles per hour, but perhaps gusting more

La Nina, we've had enough!
Get in Gear 10K, beginning at Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis, up the West River Road to the Lake Street Bridge, across the Mississippi River to St. Paul, then south on East River Road (following the Twin Cities Marathon route for a time), and south to the Ford Bridge, across the river again to Minnehaha Park.

Get in Gear is a wonderful family rite of spring (most years!)
Park and streets are full of children of all ages, including those little little folks in strollers. Even in the wintry weather today, families came out.
Here, you can see the youngsters racing to the finish of the 2K.
You can click to enlarge pictures.
No personal pictures of the 10K ... we were wearing exactly the right windbreakers and ear covers, we were only moderately chilled.
We ran, we finished! We celebrated.

PS Whole foods was giving away a couple of new-to-us gluten free products: "Enjoy Life" nut and gluten free snack bars and snickerdoodles.
www.enjoylifefoods.com
The products have no wheat, gluten, soy, nuts... and we were delighted to see, also no potato (potato flour, often a cheap empty filler in gluten free foods).

For information about today's race:
www.getingear10k.com/

Earth Day: Stop Global Warming

LA NINA graced us with quite a long winter.
Today the ice finally went out on our nearest lake ... almost a record for late.
Global warming marches on.
Because China manufactures a major proportion of products we purchase, I hope somebody is concerned the contribution of China as well as the United States to global warming, use of energy, and employee policies.

Polar bears, virgin forests ... so many issues ... so much to care about.
Happy birthday Sweet Awesome Earth.

PS We loved watching the Boston Marathon on television today... Remembering.