Almost There??

You see lots of signs along the side of the road when you run races. Some are funny and make you chuckle as you run. Now THIS is a realistic sign for a race. I hate when people shout, "Almost there!" when there are still miles to go. If you have ever run a distance, it gets harder and harder as you chalk up the miles. When you hit the double digits (10 miles) of a half marathon, you know you have the better part of it licked, but you are far from "almost there". You still need to run 3.1 miles and that's a 5K. To some runners, a 5K is the ENTIRE race. Who would tell them, at the start, that they are "almost there"??? Probably nobody. Unless you are standing at the 13 mile marker, don't tell me I am "almost there"!

Now these are pretty funny. Smiling through the pain...cuz I'm almost there!!!