May day in Italy (viva los Obredores) and another road race!!

A day worth celebrating, International workers day since about 1890.  The basic beginning of the workers movement,  people fighting for better social and economic conditions. In remembrance of the murdered demonstrators, killed by police in what is know as the Haymarket Affair in Chicago.  Demonstrators were trying to get an 8 hour work day.  Well for me I think its a good day to celebrate and remember, so I decided to run a little harder today in hono of those who would make the world a better place!

The race, A flat 10k by the sea near San Salvo Italy.  I tried to keep  up with the king of our group, but Danilo's pace was a bit to strong....he left me a 4 km and finished a little over 2 minutes in front of me.  I crossed at a hair over 43:00, not too bad, still 11th in my age category(winner was 36:00) i'm happy.  But if I want to get on the podium and win massive amounts of pasta and wine ...I am gonna have to train a lot harder or get on steroids!!

The bounty from this weeks race was 8 bags of pasta, they ran out o wine so basically gave us a case of Rigatoni!!  how cool is that!!  You can see Adele carry it in the picture ....she is so strong!!

I loved how they organized the kids events at this race.  And there was an event held that I hadnt seen in a long time...Race walking.  Although it is an Olympic event I havent seen it live in 35 years.  Vanessa of our group took 3rd overall, another superstar from "Lets Run for Solidarity"  

Enjoy the fotos...which include a few random shots from a fruit stand and some flowers....and even some people I don not know at all!!