There Arose Such a Claddagh

A fun day today on the streets of Lawrence for the Claddagh four-mile race. Not too many of the E Streeters could make the trek, though, with some of the Marathon Men still recovering from our 18-mile run yesterday along the Boston Marathon course.

For those who did make it, though, there was a huge crowd, a cloudless sky, one bitch of a hill, a great post-race dinner of pasta and salad, and oh - in Andrew's case, some hardware!

After two years of less than stellar outings that were grating on him at this race in Lawrence, Andrew broke through in a big way today, obliterating his previous times and posting a first-place finish in his age group, with a 23rd place finish overall, out of 909 runners!

Jill represented the Kenny family well, with husband and son waiting at the finish line to cheer and photograph her.

Second in a series of medals, with next Sunday's Hynes' five-miler rounding out the trio. Thanks again to Jim Rhoades for taking some of the course pics.