GET NOTHING 5K #008 - The 5Ks of Grinchmas

['Tis the weekend after Christmas, and everybody is going stir-crazy at home now that all the excitement has ebbed off. 🤷‍♂️  Why not do something about your post-celebration blues - get out into the fresh air and move your body a bit!  🏃🏃‍♀️  Maybe you even got some new running gear from Santa you'd like to try out in a little race?  Perfect!  We will be running on the deserted UNF Campus while everyone is still gone for the Holidays, just a short distance from the true bastion of Christmas... Christmas SHOPPING, that is: the St. Johns Town Center.  And if you are already sick and tired of it all, this one's for you, too!  At the Get Nothing 5K you famously get NOTHING, but thanks to our generous donors, this time all participants will receive a GRINCH mini-medal as a memento.  And we promise there won't be ANY Christmas music playing whatsoever.  So come, all ye Grinchful!😅  We meet at Parking Lot 5 just west of the University of North Florida Student Wellness Complex and just south of Hodges Stadium.]

GET NOTHING 5K offers NO swag bags, NO medals, and absolutely NO shirts - just the pure, unadulterated joy of running together.  Experience the exhilaration of crossing the finish line and getting NOTHING: no cheaply made medal to gather dust, no poorly designed t-shirt to stuff in your already overflowing drawer, no pressure to compete for age group awards - just the satisfaction of knowing you ran 5 kilometers and had FUN while doing so.  Since you get NOTHING, you even need to bring your own HYDRATION.  But that's okay, because you also PAID NOTHING - GET NOTHING 5K is a FREE TIMED 5K.  🤷‍♂️

Make it whatever YOU want it to be:  you can run fast and aim for a PR if you want, but if you "win", you still get NOTHING.   Run fast, or run slow - or somewhere in between.  Do a tempo run, interval training, use it as a tune-up or shake-out, just get in a few miles for the day, or enjoy a leisurely jog with your running bestie.  Meet new friends, catch up with old ones, encourage others along the way, maybe even inspire someone to join the fun next time.  

Running together is always more fun than running alone!  😍

WALKERS are very welcome.  GET NOTHING 5K is a community event meant for everyone, regardless of pace.  There will be a designated "TURTLE" whose job is to bring up the rear.  So unless YOU volunteer for this vital task, you will never finish last!  

Since you get NOTHING to eat or drink at the finish line - no water, no chewy granola bar, not even a stinkin' banana - why not have a spontaneous social meet-up afterwards?  Go for a beverage, ice cream, or some tacos with your fellow finishers.  You earned it today!  After all you ran 5 kilometers, by gum!  

To participate: register online, check in before the start to get your bib, then wear it on your FRONT.  Timing is done manually, and that's really hard to do if you hide your bib!  There are no timing chips - everything is GUN TIME.  That means the clock starts when the GO command is given, NOT when you cross the start line.  Keep that in mind when comparing official results with your own GPS time, so no complaining later!  Depending on where we run, there may or may not be toilets available nearby... so please mind your own "business" before the start.

Let's get together to RUN, and to have some FUN - see you at the start line!  🏃 🏃‍♀️

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN HYDRATION.