Tallahassee, Florida: Shriner's Mother's Day 5K

Stephen and Jacob ran in the Marzuq Shriner's Mother's Day 5k this morning. The race was held at Maclay Gardens in Tallahassee, Florida. What a beautiful day to watch a race. Stephen finished 1st in his age group (10-14) and 4th overall. Jacob finished 4th in his age group (10-14) and 43rd overall. You can see all the race results here. Stephen is listed as Stephen P. Probably because of his lack of handwriting skills. It was fun to visit Maclay Gardens again. Check out the pictures.

Shriners are fun to watch. Sixty five and still riding a Go Kart.
Juvenile? I think not.

Pre-race sign ups. We almost missed it.

Here comes Papa to watch the boys run.

The race is about to begin.

This is how Stephen and Jacob warm up. They need to work on it.
Way to stretch out guys.

If you look closely you can see Stephen starting the timer on his watch.

The shirtless guy on the far right (Mickey Moore) won the whole thing.
He beat Stephen by just under a minute.

This is the end of the race. The two runners are second (Pierce McCain)
and third (Michael Kinnett).

Stephen finished fourth overall and first in his age group.

You can see Stephen's time on the clock to the right.
It was a very hilly course.

Fifth (Keith Gates) and sixth (Cole Tessier).

This guy (Ted Nation) did well.
I don't know if we can count his daughter as a top finisher though.

This guy (John Rakestraw) did very well.
Look closely in the background and you can see Jacob.
He is the little blur of white shirt coming down the hill ahead of that pack.

Here comes Jacob around the last bend following Carols Zapata.

Jacob is staring at his time as he crosses the finish line.

Instead of medals the Shriners gave out baked goods for awards.
Stephen picked a wonderful chocolate cake for his first place finish.

A little post race celebration.
Behind them is the entrance to the Garden of Eden.

The following pictures were taken by Herb Wills and the originals can be found on his Facebook page. Mr. Wills and another fellow named Fred come to many of the local races and take pictures and put them on a very informative running website for the Gulf Winds Track Club. I don't think I have met either of them, but they do a great job of taking pictures and getting information about upcoming and past races on the website. The Gulf Winds Track Club is one of the most thorough and complete running websites I have seen.