before anybody calls me a sore loser...

Tourists from all over the world are excited about meeting some SLG'ers



...let me just remind you about the 10 k Healthy kidney race, held on Saturday May 16th. It was to be a rematch of the great race between Stefan and Lief which took place last year in the run with the same name and where Lief beat Stefan "resoundingly" by 1 second per mile.
So this year meant revenge. It started with a week of e-ntimidation between the two competitors, some confusion on where they would meet on the morning of the race and many, many twists and turns during the race.
The morning of the race turned out to be quite misty. Stefan thought those were perfect conditions for a duel. The moment they crossed the starting line, it started raining, and this was not merely rain, it poured... so much for the duel, the gods must have thought.
And when all was said and done, Stefan reestablished himself as the king of the short distance (as long as Gil is not around of course) and beat Lief by, according to him a "razor thin" margin of 14 seconds (Lief pointed out that she wasn't impressed with his shaving skills if 14 seconds is razor thin).
Some interesting facts about the results though :
Stefan finished in 51 minutes exactly, Lief crossed the finish line 14 seconds later.
Both competitors ran the first and the second half of their race in the exact same splits : 25:30 for Stefan's first and second 5 k, 25:37 for Lief's.
Although Lief felt she should have had a better pace per mile, she ran 4 seconds faster overall than in last years race.


Pictures by Larry Wieman