I got the chance, finally, to run the Peachtree Road race this year for the first time.  I’ve wanted to do it for probably the last 10 years, but never managed to get my hands on an AJC newspaper and send in the registration.

This year, they did registration online, so I managed to grab a spot.  A big thanks goes out to Philip and Catherine Manavi for swapping my ~80,000 time group number with a ~30,000 one!  It was really a lot of fun, and the run itself wasn’t even all that bad.  The weather was great, the event was organized extremely well considering the 55,000 people running it, and my friends were even nice enough to meet me at the finish line on a saturday at 9:00 am

The Midtown Marta station at 6:15 am

The finish line

Me and my stupid running belt

My cheering section

Still a lot of people running it even an hour after I finished

Then we went up to buckhead to watch the fireworks from the top of the Hannon Hill parking deck.  Great view!