The sun run

On April 22 2018, 40112 individuals ran the Vancuver sun run. For those of you who don’t know what the sun run is, it’s a 10k run/walk in Vancuver. You run around Vancuver and see many interesting cites like Stanley Park. While I was running the sun run, I didn’t see one look of disappointment. Everyone was happy, even the elderly people who could barley run still ran it and had a blast.

The whole province and other provinces, maybe even some states, were all brought together by this spectacular event. People who didn’t run were on the sidewalks cheering people on. The held up encouraging signs like “you can do it” and “almost there!” and “free high fives” and even “go random stranger go!”

Not only did people take time to make all of these signs, but people actually volunteered to give out water to participatnts and play music. There was this one uphill just before the 6km marker and someone took Mario game power ups and hung the from signs and street lamps. They even took fishing rods and hung them from them.

The finished line was packed with both finished participants and with people cheering on loved ones and everyone else. It was a hard run that I both over and underestimated. I thought I would be able to do it easy on the way to Vancuver but when I got there I wasn’t to sure. Anyway I tried my best and got a time of 01:04:56.

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