CBS4 Team at the 2012 Spring Chaser 5k

Check out the WHBF CBS4 race team for the "6th Annual Steve's Old Time Tap Spring Chaser 5k".  There was a great turnout running through the streets of downtown historic Rock Island, Il.  The course was pretty flat...only one hill and it wasn't bad, in fact it was an awesome decline to send us toward the finish line.
Evening Meteorologist Andy McCray emceed the race again this year.  Morning Meteorologist Travis Michels and I each finished 4th in our respective age groups.  Although he finished way faster than I did, but then again he's way younger:)  He finished in like 23 minutes and something, I finished in like 27:20 or somewhere in that range.
I think there was around 500 folks signed up. 
It was chilly, mid-40's but no rain--thank goodness!
Since it was sponsored and named after a bar, there was free beer after the race, the problem is, we were all too cold to stand out there very long :)  Andy McCray, let me borrow his gloves so I could hold onto a beer cup, but still I was shaking like a leaf on a tree.  The beer was nice and cold--just like it should be, but so was I.
My goal is always just to cross the finish line...and as long as I do that I'm happy.
WHBF CBS4 was the media sponsor, so I'm a little biased but I would definitely run this one again.

OK--I'm gonna start giving the races I run a little rating on how much I liked it...hmmm, what should I use?  Since we're running, I'll use a ten toe rating scale:)  Ten toes is perfect--0 toes is not good.

Steve's Rating on Spring Chaser 2012:  9 chilly toes up!  Fun race!