The Thanksgiving Day Run to Feed the Hungry is Sacramento’s largest “fun run” and a major fund raiser for the Sacramento Food Bank. Now in its 14th year, the event this year drew more then 21,000 participants who either ran the marked 10K (6.2M) course or walked/ran a 5K course through the streets of East Sacramento, raising more than $500,000 in pledges.
My 14-year-old grandson, Dakota, ran the 10K for the first time this year and finished 14th in his age group and 404th overall! He posted a very respectable chip time of 47:49.6 (48:21.0 gun time) and a pace of 7:43/M! Good job ‘Kota!
I think he plans to make it an annual event. And I don’t need to tell you how proud we all are of him. If I can drop some weight, I may train for next year’s run myself. I’ll be 65 then and who knows, maybe there’s one more 10K in these old knees of mine…
I’ve posted links to video of the entire race (in several clips) and overall race results. A new 10K race record was set this year by Alene Reta of New York City who posted a chip time of 28:37.4. Wow!
Congratulations and thank you to all the participants who dedicated part of their Thanksgiving holiday for this very worthy cause.