Race, Team and Tour

Before the race, gathered for group pictures with all winners from around the world.

38 Qualifying teams from six countries on five continents! Met one of the runners from Johannesburg after the race. Their team placed first in the championship! Then it was on to the tour more of Singapore!

What a great dream trip and still pinching myself!

Singapore Hotels and Artifacts

Above are the two Hotels we stayed at. I was amazed how the everything was so well maintained. The Buildings had both it's tradition and sequence of artifacts.

Ceremony, Singapore and Guarantee

This is a clip of the ceremony just before we raced the 3.5 Miler in Singapore. I sometimes carry a small hand held video Ipod and try to capture memories of the event. It gets kind of uncomfortable running with it and fear dropping it, which I have in past races. But there's just no guarantee on how long I'll be able to race.

Pacita Abad, Mom and Singapore

This is near where a bridge was produced by a well known artist, Pacita Abad. It was very close to where we stayed at Singapore! It reminded me of Mom and her art hobby history!

Mom, Gifts and Note

A note from Mom after I presented the Singapore gifts for her on Mother's day!

"Everything is perfect, the yellow top fits to a TEE...love it! The red runner looks beautiful on the piano, color is perfect, and the garden theme screen I think i will put in the powder room....I want anne and tc to see everything so will wait before and you can give them their gift, how perfect too, for them.....when is a good time to show your pictures, maybe at Kates when julia comes home over Memorial week end, that nite Friday she is entertaining us, so maybe then...."

Dave, GVH and President

Dave brought the vision of competition to Harris and the local JPMCC . He is the president of one of the local running clubs, Genesee Valley Harriers. He brings great knowledge of the tradition of running. He thrives on competition. He knows what it takes to compete and can bring out the quality in people. At one of the tables was an artist taking suggestions on transcribing the english request. We suggested the "GVH" translation and prented it to the Coach of GVH!

Chinatown, IronMan and Qualify

Dave, Jim and I are pictured here in Chinatown, Singapore. Packed with gifts. Jim ran for the mixed Corning team and is heavy into the Ironman scene. He's pumped to qualify the ironman championships in Kona. He plans to qualify at the Lake placid IRONMAN event. If anybody can do it, well JC can!