The rain and mud couldn't stop the Chile Pepper Running Festival which kicked off with the Tom Lewis 1 Mile Friday Night Pepper Dash.
Saturday started with the open 10k and 5k and continued with thousands participating in the college, high school, and junior high races to which many shoes were lost to the mud as runners ran shoeless through the finish line.

Photos for this race have been paid for and participants are granted permission to make any and all prints and to post online as wanted for personal use only. Editing/Photoshoping of photographs are not permitted without photographer's authorization. This authorization pertains to and only to the images that begin with the numbers: College Men 0001