"We'd rather Die Living, than to Live Dying!" -The Wolf Pack Events Motto"Just go out there and be active" is the tag line for the Wolf Pack Events. Yesterday Andie entered her first race sponsored by Wolf Pack, The Dam Run in Orinda at the San Pablo Dam. This was the 2nd annual Dam Run at that reservoir so I think it is safe to say that The Dam Run in Los Gatos around Lexington Reservoir is still NorCal's original "dam" run!
So while the rest of our Saturday group was leisurely running Lexington/St Joseph's in LG, Andie was out racing in Orinda.
And it was Andie's lucky (okay, more than luck plays into it) day! She won! 1st place Woman Overall! And the best part of her win was the prize. Usually you get a medal or a trophy or a plaque and some recognition, yada, yada. But the Wolf Pack Event winners got new running shoes from Road Runner Sports. Score! What a perfect prize.
With credible prizes like new running shoes, I'm even tempted to enter a Wolf Pack race. Although if I have to take 1st place to get new running shoes the odds are not in my favor. But if I keep at it perhaps by the time I'm in the "80 and over" category I'll have a shot at winning my age group.
In the meantime, I'll just keep trudging along. But congrats to our Wolf Runner Andie! Way to go!
And, FWIW (for what it's worth), all this stuff about wolves reminds me of the famous Rudyard Kipling poem, The Law of the Wolves: "For the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack." That seems like a good line to end with!
