Hagi Half Marathon

So today was pretty exciting.  Hagi held a half marathon (21km) with almost 2000 entrants.  Including several Hagi ALTs.  I appointed myself official photographer for the gaijin-team and got a couple of fun photos:

This is Rachel about 5km into the race.  She still had the energy to jump.  The photos of her from later on aren't so good. :) 

 Marc, running on a bung knee, actually looking happy while he did it.

 Dex, James' cousin.  An ALT in the next prefecture.  May or may not have had a slight hangover.

 James.  Still looking suave at around the halfway mark.

 Yes.  This is some dude wearing a maids outfit.  No.  I don't know why.

So this guy saw I was taking photos, stopped, came back to me and posed. 

After the marathon I went to meet up with the others at an onsen (public bath), but apparently every other competitor and their family had the same idea, so I skipped the bath and met everyone for food afterwards.  They had no sympathy for me, desite the fact that I had biked halfway across town to take photos of them and was all tuckered out.  No gratitude!!