Running and beer? Not together.

At least the run and the beer are in the right order.

Turkey trotting

This shot from our balcony shows runners on Riverside Drive, the Drake Bridge and Cesar Chavez, doing their thing on Thanksgiving Day. Lots of people like to run in these races, that's for sure.

Finish Line Is Near

These runners in the Capitol 10K Race are putting on their final kick, knowing that the finish line is just across the lake. If you click and get the bigger version of the shot, you'll get an idea of just how many runners this race attracts.  A friend of ours won her age division! The Capitol 10K is the fifth largest race of its kind in the country.

Heading for home.

One more shot from the marathon last Sunday, looking east down E. 11th St. and is the last before the short home stretch.  The runners were turning south onto Congress Avenue and sprinting towards the finish line at the 8th St. intersection.  This photo was taken towards the tail end of the race.  If we had walked over about an hour before this, there would have been an absolute wall of people in this shot. Thanks to some high technology gadgets, the announcer was able to boom out the names of some of the runners at the finish just by looking at the numbers on their shirts.

Turkeys Ready to Trot

Don't you love the runs where people get into costumes? Before the start of the Turkey Trot.

National Athem

Caught the people at the front of the starting line of the Turkey Trot listening to the National Anthem.

Bridge of People

 We heard there were over 20,000 people participating in the Annual Thundercloud Turkey Trot on, of course, Thanksgiving Day. Well, there are certainly a lot of people on the Drake Bridge.

Capitol 10K

Yesterday was the Capitol 10K. We never got closer to the festivities than this shot from our balcony. It's late in the race and Auditorium Shores is swamped with people who've finished and those on Cesar Chavez look more like walkers to me. Supposedly this race is the biggest 10K in Texas or one of the top five 10Ks in the U.S. I'm a walker myself and I don't do that in large groups. But this is great fun for many. I was reading this week how the land between us and the run will begin to be developed, perhaps starting late this year. I may have to be less lazy about taking a shot of this run in the future.

Marathoners on Bridge

Sunday thousands of people ran marathons or half marathons in Austin. The closest I got to the race was watching runners from my balcony. These folks were massed across the Drake (South First) bridge which was closed to traffic.

Go - gorillas - go!

These two simians paused in their "run" over the Drake Bridge to pose for the cameras last Saturday. I love how having a costume on seems to free people from their inhibitions.

Mama and baby get warm and fuzzy

Austin's insatiable appetite for runs/walks/trots on weekend mornings must be satisfied! This Saturday we had a Gorilla Run for the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund. Here is a mama simian with her offspring.

Action Shot...Where's the Beef?

It's the first of the month and on City Daily Photo that means theme day. This month's theme is 'action shot.' I decided to show you these two people running in the Thanksgiving Day Schlotzsky's Turkey Trot because it's Texas and if you are a serious runner (as these two in the foreground seem to be) you will be powered by beef! Think their team must be the Beef Council or something. (Yes, in Texas there is a Beef Council.)

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Ready to Trot

One of the biggest 'fun runs' (and walks and kid's K) of the year is the Thundercloud Subs Turkey Trot. Thanksgiving icons ready to trot this morning.

Who Else Ran the Cap 10K?

A group of Gumbys (but no Pokeys). The costumes are a big part of the fun. Gumby was the original claymation character.

Some Dashing Runners

This colorful bunch of runners were part of the annual Capitol 10,000 race in downtown yesterday. It's the biggest annual run in town. Linda and I went to a spot on Congress Avenue to snap some shots of the runners. All told, there were over 22,000 people participating.

Congress Avenue Traffic

Congress Avenue was closed (along with Cesar Chavez and the S. 1st and Congress bridges) on Memorial Day for the running and bike parts of some triathlon.

Start Your Engines, Babies

This racing team in the Capital 10K yesterday had a well-executed theme, huh? We caught them here near the starting line on the Congress Avenue Bridge.

The Avenue and the Capital 10K

Thousands and thousands of people stream toward the Capitol at the beginning of the Capital 10K race. One of the oldest running events in Austin, it has been going on since I've been in Austin. (Picture from Congress Avenue at the bridge. See long view yesterday with hardly any traffic.) There were so many people on the bridge that you could feel it vibrate.

What are They Running From?

We slept in a little this morning and now there are thousands of people running away from South Austin across the First Street Bridge and west on Cesar Chavez. OK, it's the Austin Marathon and Half Marathon. They are going to run all around and end up at 7th and Congress. (The finish line of two circuitous courses. You can also see in this picture that Mega Millions is up to 103 million dollars. Our balcony's view would be convenient for a gambler who wanted to size up the big prize before buying a ticket with that sign which is updated based on the results each week.

Hard Sell

We are not runners. Rather we are walkers and we were walking around some race (a marathon relay, I think) that had runners on 11th near the (nearly destroyed by arson) Governor's Mansion. This water station looked a bit ignored by the dozen or so runners we saw go by, but they were prepared as this phalanx of cups filled with water attests.