Austin Trail of Lights 5K - 8 Dec 2007

I was in Austin for a couple of weeks in December with work and this 5K race happened to be on at the time. Every December in Zilker Park (just across the river from downtown Austin), a trail of more than 180,000 lights is setup and to open it, they hold a 5K race.

The race started at 6:30pm and it was hot (75°F) and humid. There must have been around 5000 people in the race - it was absolutely rammed. I recall feeling massively out of place when they played the US national anthem (and everyone sang along) just before the start.. very odd. Anyway, the race started and it took ages for everyone to get over the start line. There was no organisation at the start and it turned out that loads of people were walking, and had got themselves near the front, so hundreds of people were struggling to get past them. Still, the lights were pretty cool.. I finished in 26:55.

• Race summary at MotionBased
• Google map of my run