As part of my race schedule, this year's season was supposed to start with the Moose Run: a grueling 25km road race in beautiful Cow Bay by cold, early spring, Nova Scotia weather. A knee injury later, the Moose Run was dropped and I was in the search for a short distance road race to start the year while getting back my "broco-foot" (what Cavita called me).

 

Alex (a fellow Rotarian) came to Brett and me with the idea of running the Halifax Smashed Dash 2017: a 6km road race in downtown Halifax for which the keywords were Drink & Run!

 

Curious about the concept, excited about the beers and a bit anxious about my knee, I didn't hesitate for long. I accepted Alex's offer. And how fun it was!

 

First, we had to choose a team's name. Ours was direct about our goals: "Here for the beer". On the time of the race, our team assembled to discover that more than twenty other teams were participating, each with more exotic names and disguises than the others. Clearly, everyone was here for the fun and the beer :) 

 

50 minutes down the road along with 1,5 liters of beer (gulped at three different pubs) we were finished. If you are interested in reproducing the track on your own, the race recording is available online. And to celebrate that, the race organizer had partly privatized a surrounding bar where we enjoyed snacks to recover from our efforts and our beers... Cheers!