10k sea of whales Kinda long (heh), so settle in. Or don't. I don't care. Wife and I routinely do the 10k challenge for the Strava badge (not very fast, mind you, but hey, we're primarily cyclists and just jog for the cardio and calorie burn). So this past Thursday we decide to do the turkey trot 10k...our first organized run. So we get there and see that there are these sections marked with how fast you're expected to go. We walk past the 8-9 min mile section, and then the 10-11...we figure we're pretty slow, so we stand in the 12+ area such that we don't get in the way of real runners. There's like, nobody with us. Big crowds in all the faster starting areas, but we're almost the only ones at the 12+. We're like crap, we suuuuuuuck. Anyway, our wave is about to start, and the announcer makes a point of saying that walkers should walk on the right, so as not to get in the way. We stand all the way to the left because fuck that, we don't stop or walk..,that's part of the challenge. So the 10k starts and we settle into a nice tempo. The next hour consists of dodging fatties as they walk or waddle directly in front of us...sometimes multiple manatees abreast, blocking the way. I swear we added another .1 miles to our run from the constant detouring.  Why the fuck are they not on the right? And why the fuck were they standing ahead of us at the start, if it's obvious they can't do a 20 minute mile, much less 12. Fupacabras can't do anything right, including follow directions. One fascinating thing was that as the hour went on, the people around us became more and more fit. It was like watching a time lapse of the evolution of man, like those evolution posters...but with an obeast on one side, and a regular person on the other, with various stages of decreasing adiposity in between. We eventually finished with nary a mayochugger in sight, at a pace of 10:45 minutes per mile. So we jogged it. But at least we kept going steadily and never slowed down. And we enjoyed it. The scenery just got better and better, like clawing our way out of the pits of the part of hell that deals with the gluttony of man. tl;dr: my god, it's full of whales!