Windermere 5K Run Among the Lakes

The morning could not have been nicer for a run/walk in Central Florida. Temps were in the low 70s, there was live jazz by The Groove Doctor in the Town Square at Windermere, vendors were serving coffee, juice, fruit and water to the runners and the sun decorated the landscape making the greens greener and dancing off the lakes surrounding the race course.
Registration was smmoooth - we picked up our packets and Tee Shirts (the art work on the shirt is above) - it's really a fine looking shirt - and headed for the starting line. We knew that we'd be walking the course -

Be was breaking in a new pair of hiking boots and Don just had surgery on his foot earlier in the year, so we let the crowd of serious runners (we had not ever seen so many people in one place without an ounce of fat on their bodies) pass us by .......

..... and moseyed on down the road .....

...... along the way, we hooked up with our friend, Mike, who was having

ankle problems and dropped out after awhile.

The 7th Annual 5k Run is held in the charming town of Windermere and follows the shoreline of the beautiful Butler Chain of Lakes.

The 3.1 mile course is unpaved, hard-packed sand.

It meanders along the lakefront beneath the canopy of old oak trees.

The little kids get to run too.

Below are a couple of videos we took just for fun.

One is Don narrating the event like he's doing an Olympic event and the other

is a bunch of neighbors who decided to party and cheer on the runners (at 8 AM)

with shouts, cheers, noisemakers and mimosas (champagne & OJ)