Old Man Peachtree

 As I was driving down to the Peachtree Road Race Expo on Thursday morning to pick up my number (so I wouldn't have to pay the exorbitantly overpriced mailing fee to race sponsor UPS), I was thankful the expo had been moved to Lenox Square from the Congress Center downtown. Closer to home. Free parking.

And less walking. Or so I thought. Traffic around Lenox was gridlocked at 9:15 am. It was a work day. Saw participants qued up on Peachtree and wrapped around down Lenox Road - 45 minutes before opening. Goodness. Parked in the shady deck. Should've walked straight up to Lenox Road, but dummy me went toward the expo entrance - then up the ramp to Peachtree and around the corner, down Lenox a bit. Kept looking for someone I knew, but nada.

Then Friday's thunderstorm flooded the expo tents. Man the Peachtree Road Race is such as hassle. So expensive. So many hoops to jump through, to get your number and then it make it to the start line. The race is the easy part, but then making it home from Piedmont Park is a long uphill death march to MARTA.

Now that I retired, the Peachtree gang at my old office completely collapsed. Brad needed the time to re-side his house. Steve moved to Dawsonville. Rachel gave birth on Independence Day. Armstrong gave it up a few years ago. Shane ran it once. Even super stud Jason K didn't run this year.

July 4 sunrise from the MARTA platform.

Danny Downing got it right: how tone death of the woke track club to have a yellow t-shirt to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding. Loads of complaints. You'd think race sponsor adidas could've done better. Guess all they care about is plopping their logo where the design should be.

And once again the t-shirt design was printed way down on the belly of the shirt, as opposed to up on the chest. So much space to move the design up toward to collar. Same as last year.