In a strange Lao style mix up, my fellow SALTers and I were signed up to run the 10k race instead of the 5K we had been training for. It worked out well in the end though and somehow all three of found it within ourselves to finish. My time came in at just under an hour, but don't get too excited; the route was suspiciously short. Our best guess is that we ran 8 or 9K. Larry, another MCCer who signed up to run the 21K had the opposite problem. The turn around sign was somehow knocked down and he (along with dozens of other runners) wound up running close to 30K! I'm excited to keep running in the mornings here and hopefully find opportunities to run a few more races, if not in Laos then when I return to Canada.