I drove 30 miles south of Austin to San Marcos and ran in a small half marathon this morning. I've been doing Moe's Half Marathon for years and I wasn't about to miss it this year. The course is out in the country so the only crowd support is the occasional herd of cattle. They all line up along the fence and mock us as we run by - "you humans claim to be more evolved than us...that's bull." They like to throw out a little bovine humor. The race has 300 participants at the most. The marathon that I ran in Dallas in December had over 10,000 so this was a nice change.Some half marathons hand out medals to the finishers which I find silly and useless. Moe hands out coffee mugs. You can never have too many coffee mugs.
