Answer: It's time for the marathon!
That was the conversation between my friends and our taxi driver on our way to the start of the MTN Kampala International Marathon the weekend before Thanksgiving as the driver wasted no time even hesitating at red lights.
There were approximately 10,000 people registered for the race, and nearly all of them were running the 10 km distance, including myself. At the start, about 50 people left for the full marathon, followed by about 100 for the half, and then the remaining 9,000 plus participants swarmed the starting line in anticipation for the start of the 10 km race.
Me in a sea of MTN yellow waiting for the race to start
It took some time for this crowd to funnel across the starting line, but after a little while the pack thinned out to a point where one could actually run and I ended up finishing the race in 53 minutes. Not a fast time by any means, but I was pretty happy with my just faster than 9 minutes per mile pace.
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