I did my first St. Patrick's 5k Bar run last weekend in Des Moines.  It was a ton of fun and I went with a fun group of my peeps.  We all dressed up in costume and headed down to the race.  Ok it really wasn't a "timed" race, but we still did our fair share of actual running.  On the day of the race it was down pouring all day, which made it interesting.  Many of us were wearing ponchos over our costumes but we still had a blast!