Wilbraham Peach Festival

For our weekend excursion, we didn't go far from home. Wilbraham is a rural suburb of Springfield and hosts an annual Peach Festival with a 5 mile run. Mike and I jumped on the opportunity to try our first New England race.

We rolled out of bed at 7am and headed out for the race. We weren't really sure how many people to expect being that the registration stated that the first 200 participants would receive a t-shirt. Come to find out, this was the largest race yet for the Peach Festival topping out at 223 runners! The scale here in Springfield is just a little different than Cincinnati.

Mike and I finished dead on 45 minutes and right in the middle of the pack. It was an easy flat course although humid. After the race we were awarded a peach pancake breakfast as part of the registration fee. I was a tad disappointed to see canned peaches plopped onto my plate considering the title of the festival includes the word Peach. I was imagining fresh farmers market type festival. Boy was I mistaken. Instead, this shindig is more of a Cincinnati grown Catholic Church Festival with fried dough wagons, inflatable bouncers/slides, and a carousel and no fresh peaches for sale anywhere on the grounds.

But for $20 we had a nice race, got a long sleeve t-shirt, a peach pancake breakfast, plus someone mistook me for a senior high school student in need of taking the SAT. Since I just turned 29, that felt pretty good!