Feb. 19: A big day, time for the 6.1 K De Corazon A Corazon road race downtown, with the start and finish just three blocks from our hotel. It was super well organized, with a ton of police, including enough to shut down a major, three-lane thoroughfare that we crossed twice. The course was fine until we hit a 1.5-mile hill. That took the steam out of us.
     "Us" included Amby, Cristina, Gary, Jackie Hastings, and Jim Austin, the guy who gave us the tour of the Eco Conservation reserve a week earlier. We called ourselves "Team Oaxaca Gringos." Not that there was a team prize or anything. Indeed, the oldest award category was 50+, so us old guys got skunked. Great fun nonetheless. The race was won by--who else?--a Kenyan.