We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

John F. Kennedy

September 12, 1962

Broad Street Run

Broad Street Run

John Ailor
Running, Land based fun

On Sunday, May 1st, I ran my eight* in nine years Broad Street Run. Clear skies, 53 degrees, humidity 55%, wind 5 mph from ENE - in other words the weather was perfect for the 28,000 runners of every shape, size, binary and nonbinary gender, ability, ethnicity, race/mixed race, income bracket, education level, inked or not, pierced, bearded, clean shaven, whatever, all have been welcomed on Broad Street on the first Sunday in May for the last 43 years.

Sunday was probably the best BSR I’ve run. Not my time, which was okay-I’ve done better, I’ve done worse (look me up on athlinks.com): next year. PB-but the support along the way was outstanding. From the Our Lady of Hope choir in Olney, to the Temple drum line, to the rock band with the could’ve-been-Clarence-Clemons sax player at the Union League whose music’s reverberation off the Trading Places bank building made for a huge sound moment, to the throngs of cheering crowds, the street was rocking.

Thanks to the thousands who made the morning special; see you next year for that Personal Best.

The Rothman Roller Rink at Dilworth Park. Bid pick-up was at the Convention Center and I stumbled across this scene on my way to the regional rail for the trip home.

* The 2020 BSR was COVID moved to October and then made virtual (which I ran in Pittsburgh cause that’s were I was that day). The 2021 BSR was also moved to October but I had already signed up for the Steamtown Marathon-which got cancelled too late to sign-up for the BSR. All of which is a long winded way of saying, I missed one run in the last nine years.

Remodel or Move?

Remodel or Move?