Severance Hospital Run

I woke up Saturday to the coldest day of the season and made my way over to meet Sung Ho for Severance Hospital Run. Three minutes after taking shotgun in his car, he passed on some information letting me know that this year's run would be a whole lot of walking. Sung Ho's fiancee made it clear to him that this race was not allowed to leave him strained, stiff, injured, ill, sunburned or over worked because they were having their wedding pictures done the next day. (In Korea you take the pictures before the big day and there are a ton of poses and she did not want to be dropped when it came time for him to do the pose where he holds her.)

Before starting the race there were a couple of cases of beer brought out to the Company's tent and it didn't matter to me that it was warm or the worst beer (Hite) in Korea. Sung Ho and I were going to make it back before they all disappeared to the heftier people doing the 5km run. We made up a plan of breaking up the run by running three kms and taking the next one off. We did alright and actually altered the plan a bit when Sung Ho said his muslces could haddle it.

The only embarrassing part came about 500 meters from the finish line when the race leader of the half marathon sprinted past us. He had speed, stamina and strength Sung Ho and I wish we had but I felt a little bit sorry for him, he probably didn't get to reward himself with a beer when he finished.