Well, I decided to post this picture anyway because despite Blogger's incompetence, it looks pretty cool. Click on any of the pictures to enlarge.
"Red Dog" Gardner, seen in the pink shirt, has been offering a 5-day a week workout program
for the people of Lawrence for the last 25 years. People's lives have changed because of his devotion to physical fitness, people have met spouses at his workouts, and attending enough of the workouts to obtain a "Red Dog's Dog Days" (25) t-shirt has become a status symbol around town.
Tonight, both as a tribute to Red Dog's commitment to the program, and to encourage the Lawrence community to become the "most physically fit city in the country", Dog Days' organizers spread the
word that they wanted to set the record for the "World's Largest Community Workout".
Approximately 2,760 people joined in the workout. We did jumping jacks, stretched, exercised our abs, and used our legs to sprint across the waterbottle laden field. It was a hot day, the workout was hard, but it was fun to be part of something bigger than ourselves.
The record was not actually not hard to beat, as there was no previous record. It's also not a Guinness book of world record's record simply because there is too much red tape to cut and too expensive to make happen. Regardless of whether a record was officially set or not, it was fun to see the community come out to support this local icon and do something to better themselves.
