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Suntrust Richmond Marathon 2008/ Jyocel Basweti Wins/ 22 Year Old Wins In 2:22:22

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  5. Suntrust Richmond Marathon 2008/ Jyocel Basweti Wins/ 22 Year Old Wins In 2:22:22

I was downtown early this morning taking some photos of the Richmond Marathon participants.


I don’t think that I have ever seen so many skinny people in one place before.  And not just thin but also exhibiting good posture and looking very healthy.  After awhile it made me want to cry a little bit.  Because it raised my faith in humanity.   Here all these people were getting ready to submit their bodies to cruel and unusual punishment.  Perhaps a bit of torture in some cases.

And they seemed pretty cheerful about it.  In fact you could see that they had been doing this to themselves fairly regularly and it really wasn’t such a big deal.

I was very impressed.  Every once in awhile my fellow human beings cheer me up.

This morning was one of those times.   And here are some photos of some of the leaders in the race.  I called my son Zachary after a few hours to see if he was in the neighborhood and wanted to join me.  And in fact he was at a friend’s apartment nearby.  He was planning to make breakfast for a group of sorority girls but managed to fit me in for a little while.

I appreciate it big guy.  So we hung out and I took some photos.   Some of the leaders have some really amazing muscles don’t they?   Congratulations to everyone who participated.  A lot of folks ran the half marathon but they ended up crossing the finish line right next to the ones who ran the full marathon.

Wouldn’t it be cool to run through the finish line and look on the other side of the orange cone to see an  extraordinary  runner from  Kenya  finishing at the same time?   Of course he would have traveled twice as far before getting there.

But it would still be cool.   I may have to start running so I can run side by side with some of the great marathoners next year.  That would be about twelve miles or so in two hours and twenty minutes.  Or about twelve 12 minute miles.

Or I could take some more photos.

Jyocel Basweti, a 22-year-old from Kenya, won the 31st SunTrust Richmond Marathon men’s race this morning with a time of 2:22:22.

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/sports/marathon.html

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8 Responses to “Suntrust Richmond Marathon 2008/ Jyocel Basweti Wins/ 22 Year Old Wins In 2:22:22”

  1. # Kellon Nov 15th 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Really nice photos and some amazing muscles! There was only one picture that had two runners even close to resembling the general population!

  2. # Ron in L.A. (98 comments.)on Nov 15th 2008 at 2:46 pm

    Nice job David.

    R(etc… )

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  3. # Davidon Nov 15th 2008 at 7:24 pm

    Thanks. Guys. Appreciate your comments.

  4. # Robin Easton (79 comments.)on Nov 17th 2008 at 9:17 pm

    This IS incredible. I so admire the stamina of people who run marathons. I’ve never had the urge to run a marathon but I do get strong urges to a long walk or trek, going for days, weeks or months. It’s a dream of mine. These are wonderful photos David. I was touched that you son joined you. And touched that you went to see this…AND that you appreciated this. It would move me to tears as well. Nicely done my friend. Hugs to you, Robin

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  5. # Great post about the Suntrust Marathon « Darned Slackson Nov 18th 2008 at 6:46 pm

    [...] post about the Suntrust Marathon Jump to Comments The Virginia Breeze blog has a fantastic post about this year’s Richmond marathon with some stunning photos. It [...]

  6. # Darned Slacks (1 comments.)on Nov 18th 2008 at 6:46 pm

    Thanks for the post. Those runners are almost on a different plane of existence.

  7. # Rahul (7 comments.)on Nov 19th 2008 at 11:42 am

    Incredible pictures David. These people have always impressed and fascinated me. The amount of willpower and discipline they have borders on inhuman. Very motivating to watch them keep going no matter what, and I can only imagine the amount of training that goes into finishing with a time like 2:22. Ridiculous!

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  8. # Runlikeh3ll@Runner's Blog (1 comments.)on Mar 9th 2009 at 10:47 pm

    Some very nice photos here, I’m in PA and I can’t wait until it warms up so I can get back to running!

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