{"id":143,"date":"2009-04-17T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T20:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/?p=143"},"modified":"2009-04-17T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T20:40:34","slug":"the-corporate-5k-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"The Corporate 5K Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Insurance Offices of America, an industry group, sponsors 5K races to promote good healthy lifestyles for employees.\u00c2\u00a0 In Orlando, the major companies of the town cooperate, and this year, the largest ever, we had 11,000+ people participate.\u00c2\u00a0 Disney has the most, of course, but CCC has a high participation rate, with 418 this year (our best), the second most from one company, though we are not second largest in town.\u00c2\u00a0 5K is 3.1 miles for those who are wondering.<\/p>\n

\"Team<\/p>\n

Our whole family participated.\u00c2\u00a0 We brought one of Melissa’s friends and set up near the tent for CCC, on the grass by the east side of Lake Eola, the original location of Orlando when cattlemen first scouted out a suitable living area.\u00c2\u00a0 The downtown of Orlando now is on the west side of the lake, and so we were watching a beautiful sunset between the towers.\u00c2\u00a0 The east and north sides of\u00c2\u00a0the lake are full of old houses and huge trees, and have brick streets.\u00c2\u00a0 Our circuit started in a downtown street on the south side, went uptown on the east, then across the north into the brick streets and a bit of a northeast extension, down the west side and back through a couple park areas to the south side of the lake again.\u00c2\u00a0 Not much in the way of hills – this is Florida!<\/p>\n

\"Lining<\/p>\n

The whole 11,000 people got lined up with seeded racers first, then runners, then walkers.\u00c2\u00a0 Our son Ben joined the runners and he turned in a time of 28 minutes and a little bit.\u00c2\u00a0 The first place finisher ran a blazing 15 min 36 sec.\u00c2\u00a0 Counting from when we finally got to the starting line, until we finally crossed under the finish,\u00c2\u00a0Rochelle and I and Melissa and Josh made it in 58 minutes, 45 seconds, a good walking pace.<\/p>\n

\"Race<\/p>\n

Afterward we grabbed the box dinners and Gatorade provided and recovered.\u00c2\u00a0 It was great fun being out with everyone on such a beautiful day, and times like this we get to see staff we don’t always see at headquarters as the place is so big our paths don’t cross much.\u00c2\u00a0 We’re grateful everyone made it around and had a fun time together!<\/p>\n

\"Josh<\/p>\n

\"Our<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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