Sun Run 2008

Some days you just can help but do the rookie thing. Got up early on Sunday to be downtown at the start of the Vancouver Sun Run in plenty of time before the start. Took the bus, because with half the streets closed for the race and parking likely to be a nightmare it just didn't make sense to take the car. Sitting on the bus gave me plenty of time to remember the race map - which was still sitting on the kitchen table - that I'd printed for reference so that I wouldn't have to rely on memory for the route. Not that it was a particularly hard route to memorize, but I hadn't bothered to do so as I'd printed a map...

Then when I got over that I realized that I had over 80 pictures still in the camera that hadn't been downloaded to the computer yet. I'd meant to do that on Saturday, but just hadn't gotten around to it. Oh well, I've always got my back-up memory card, right? Except that there was a bunch of non-picture files on that one too, with less than half the space left for pictures, and it's a small card to start with.

I'd thought that I'd get a chance to nip down to BC Place to see some of the folks finishing the race and get some start-of-race and end-of-race comparison shots. Not likely of the same people mind you - there were over 59,000 entrants in the race after all, but something to show the toll that a 10K run takes.

I ran out of storage space even before the last wave of runners got to start.

Turns out that the 80 pictures I'd started out with on the main card were pretty much all crap, and if I'd have just deleted them it would have been no great loss. And I likewise could have just formatted the back-up card to clear it out. This would have given me about 130 more shots to work with. Keep in mind that shooting this kind of event uses up shots very quickly, even though most are going to end up in the recycle bin. But an additional 130 pictures would definitely have gotten me to the finish line.

Oh well. There's always next year.

As for this picture - I'd actually prepared a slightly different version in Photoshop but as has been the case lately, the brightness/contrast/colour were all wrong when checked prior to posting so I had to redo it using DPP (Canon software) which just doesn't have the functionality of Photoshop.

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