Happy Soup Year!

So today was the annual E Streeters New Year's Day run, a tradition that dates back decades. A time for friends to recharge, start the New Year off right, and log their first miles. Lately, though, a new participant has entered the game.


May I present the star of the run, Karen's soup: Here's the soup's pre-run shot, with some of its biggest supporters:

Heading out for the run, who takes the early lead on 1/1/11? Oh yeah, the guy wearing the number 1:

Here's Sean, mapping out his town-line strategy: And here we go, the first contested town line of 2011. Who won the horse race?

Gee, I don't know. Maybe the Clydesdale?

Running through the Tyngsboro springs, on a 50+ degree day:

Back in the lead, it must be the downhill momentum

Barry, ready for battle:

Andrew and Jonathan, heading into the Land of the Lost:

Andrew, flexing some frontrunner muscle:

And another town line. Who took this one? The Chili king?

Could it be Barry, angling to get back early for the first bowl of soup?

Or did 2011 start off with a two-timer?

The first father-son pic of the 2011 running season:

And afterwards, the soup takes the number 1 spot:

Thanks Karen, a memorable soup that even Scott Brown would enjoy! Thanks also to John Piekos and his Runcam shots. A great way to start the New Year off running! May there be many more E Streeter soup runs in our future! Here's to 2011!