Just Another Runner

Yesterday, my wife, son and I joined the 2010 Runnex 10K Executive Classic at UP as part of the graduation run for the participants of the Runnex Discover Running Series running clinic. Most of my past races were big productions in business districts - Century Tuna Run 2010, Mizuno Infinity Run 2010 and Globe Run for Home 2010. Compared to those races where there were thousands of runners, this was very small with just around 300 runners. There were no celebrities (unless you consider Zorro as one), no bands, no blaring music, no timing chip, no frills. For the clinic participants, they provided pacers. For the slowest group, the group I paced with, it was paced by Mr. Rene - The Jazzrunner , who also doubled as a running resource person for the runners he was pacing. The marshals throughout the course were mostly members of Runnex, assisted by members of the UP Mountaineers who were on bicycles. There were younger looking marshals and I'm not sure if they were children of th