Happy Halloween 🙂

This last Sunday, I had the opportunity to run in a 30km relay race (hence the 10-10-10).   A part from diving, I was not doing any sports and felt I should to something a bit more athletic to keep in shape.  I decided to take up running, which is something I did do a bit many years ago.   The great thing about running in Cayman is that there is a huge population of runners and there is a race almost (no kidding) every week-end from September though February (during summer its just too hot!)

This week-ends race started from lovely East End of Grand Cayman, more specifically at the Reef Resort. The course is essentially the whole “East end loop”.  So runners start at point A (see below), then run West (top of island) all the way to Frank Sound Road (Old Man Bay) and go south, crossing the entire island and then back to The Reef along the southern coastline.  Each runner does 10k out of the 30.  The race started at 6am, so the first runner had very little sun to deal with but this day there was virtually no wind and humidity was quite high. I was runner 2 and had decent shade since 5km was on Frank Sound Rd and there are large trees/bushes along that road.  The final runner had it tough ; to add to the no wind/high humidity, the sun was now out in force and right in their face. In case you are wondering, I ran my 10km (+-6.2 miles) in 48mins 10 seconds.

At the awards ceremony.  We were the second corporate team in.   Overall, we came in (I think) 6th team out of 14 teams (or something along those lines) Personally I am just happy to have run it; the trophy is just a bonus.  The guy in the middle the is Governor, Duncan Taylor, who is also a very good runner and won the 5km race.  In case you are wondering, the Governor is the formal head of state and is named by the Queen of England for a 4-year term.

There were a few visitors/tourists who ran the race. (There was also the option to run the whole 30k solo) So if anyone visiting Cayman wants to know if there will be a race where they are on island, here is a Website that lists and details all the upcoming runs.  There are a whole bunch coming up, so if you will be in Cayman anytime soon and want to run a race, you should have no problem finding one to participate in.

Here is the URL:  http://www.caymanactive.com/running

You can also follow them on Twitter for race announcements @CaymanActive