The Animile, its a local one mile race for you and your pup. Proceeds go to the local animal shelter. It's a great cause.
The unique one miler is ran just before the Kingsport Christmas Parade. So everyone dresses up in Santa outfits, and even puts costumes on the pets!
Honestly, this year, I registered because:
1) we've never done it before
2) Peaches loves to run with us
3) It's a great cause
4) The logo on the shirt was a fun yin/yang with a paw print/sneaker print
So I registered us and told Doug it was okay if he didn't go, but I would go with Peaches.
Saturday came, and Doug decided not to run it, but he was going to take his girls. No big deal.
We made it to Kingsport, got into the downtown madness, found a parking spot, got our bibs/swag bags, and wandered into the madness.
It was interesting. Lots, and lots of puppies. It was loud, lots of yappers. We huddled on the sidewalk near the start and waited, watched. The sun was bright, it was about 60*, and we tried to keep Peaches in the shade.
The human mile started. And we waited for our turn, still in the shade. We were parked at a spot on the sidewalk, that Peaches and I could just jump over into the crowd and start. The organizers said "15 more minutes," so we waited.
A co-worker of mine had run the human mile, he caught up with us. He had actually gotten bit by a dog at the beginning of his run. He said the dog just jumped out of the crowd and grabbed his hand!
Finally, it was go time. Everyone got in stance, ready, set, go! I kissed Doug and started to get Peaches into the pack.
We walked right over into an opening, the barking only got louder, there were retractable leashes, and then two dogs in front of us started growling and acting less than friendly towards each other.
Doug said Peaches looked at him like "WHAT is Mom making me do Dad? PLEASE HELP!"
At this point I looked at Doug and said "F*** THIS!," Peaches and I left the pack, and we went home. The total time it took us to get out of that pack was 18 seconds.
Never again will we register for that race. There were too many misbehaved dogs and irresponsible parents for me to trust running any distance with that group. I should have known better!
Oh well, at least we looked cute!
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