On Oct. 24th, me and the girls headed out to Giza to run in The Race for the Cure, Egypt. It was a pretty interesting experience. The race itself was only 1.2 K (a laughable 3/4th of a mile), but it was historic in that it promoted women and was around the pyramids. The organization was typically egyptian: chaos. The race course was NOT closed to tour buses, so they were trying to drive down the road while all 7,000 of us were trying to run by:) The start began with people behind and in front of the "start line", there were no water stops and there were no course boundaries.....but there were amazing women with pink head scarves, crying over the freedom of the experience. There were sufi dancers with bright skirts spinning, people helping others and encouraging others along (someone even picked up my camera that fell out of my bag and returned it to me) and a great feeling of commraderie among all the different races/cultures represented.
We got to walk/run with the US Ambassador and Embassy crew and with the NAMRU-3 crowd. It was great:)
2 comments:
Really, really cool...that has to be the best "race" setting ever! What an amazing experience..."the freedom of it."
That's such a special experience to be apart of. What a great day for women in that part of the world!!! WOOO!! ha ha, crazy about the tour buses...
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