Seafest Saturday was a little busier for me than usual. Normally my day starts closer to 10 with the Bubble Gum Blowing contest, but this year I volunteered to help with the Sheila Poole 10K run. I was given the job of "T-Shirt Police" since there was only enough shirts for the first 100 that signed up for the run. By the time they were ready for the starting gun there was 237 registered runners, one of the biggest turn outs.
One of the runners, I came to find out was my cousin Chris. He is my mother's eldest sister, Maxine's son. He's been living in Yarmouth for many years now with his wife Jean, who is from here, and their two children. Chris was doing his first 10K run at the Sheila Poole race and did extremely well! He finished with the same big smile that I remember from our visits to Nanny's trailer in Lower Barney's River, N.S., when we were kids. Chris and sometimes his brother Stephen, would show up as the cool, eldest cousins of the family on motorcycles. We'd be excited if we could at least sit on the motorcycles or extremely luck if they'd take us for a ride around the field.
Congratulations Chris on your excellent race! He finished in just over 50 minutes. The first picture below is of all of the runners that were participating in their very first 10K run. All of them started, all finished! Nice work folks!! (Chris is on the far right, standing up.)
Theme Song for today: Always on the Run by Lenny Kravitz
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