The largest race series in the area run by Pacers and sponsored by the National Guard got [button-red url=”http://www.swimbikerunphoto.com” target=”_self” position=”left”] Photos [/button-red]underway as runners got literally blown across the starting mats for the third annual Love the Run You’re With 5K. The event started a few yards away from the Pentagon City store, one of six Pacers stores in the area.
The race was again posed to get larger as it started with 1,314 finishers in 2009 and grew to 1,694 last year. Nearly 2,000 runners signed up and with winter being timid this year and giving us the second meager snow storm on Saturday, things looked really good. Then the winds descended from the top of Army-Navy Drive seemingly challenging runners in both directions. The thermometer dipped to one of the lowest of the year, about 21 degrees as the race got underway. At 964, the number of women nearly doubled the 494 men, for a total of 1,458 finishers.