This morning I ran in the Two Oceans International Friendship Run, which took runners from all different countries on a nice 5K from the Waterfront to Green Point and back. Emily joined me for the run but definitely ran a lot faster than I did, since I kept a really slow pace the whole run as to not wear myself out before tomorrow.
I got to chat with participants from all over, including a guy from Costa Rica who told me he's run 10 marathons but never an ultra, and that he cries each time he finishes. I also heard announcements of how many runners from each country--ONE FROM AFGHANISTAN. That's me. Unfortunately neither Emily nor I had any clue what the Afghanistan flag looks like so we couldn't pick it out from all the flags at the start of the run, otherwise I would have gotten a picture representing my country.
There was a wonderful stop halfway through where I got to help this lovely little lady find a new pair of shoes. Old Mutual donates a portion of the money it makes on the Two Oceans entires to help kids in Cape Town get new shoes for school.
Afterwards Emily and I used our race goodie bags of candy to pay our minibus fare back to Mowbray. I should really start carrying bags of M&Ms instead of cash because the caller seemed a lot more excited to get his payment in candy instead of in five rand!
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