HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Although the Richmond Marathon is over, runners in the River City didn’t kick up those heels after Saturday, some traded their traditional shoes for a T-Rex suit.
This years’ T-Rex Run, hosted by the Richmond Road Runners Club (RRRC), happened on Sunday, Nov. 17 and brought more than 100 people dressed in inflatable dinosaur costumes as a way to commemorate marathon weekend coming to an end.
“You don’t see this a lot,” said RRRC Board of Directors member Donnie Lane.
Scientists say there hasn’t been a Tyrannosaurus Rex on earth in 66 million years. But in Henrico, more than 100 were spotted.
The T-Rex run took these creatures a little less than half a mile around the Dorey Park lake as a way to celebrate wrapping up the marathon weekend.
“It’s like a recovery run,” Lane said. “They get stiff, and the muscles tighten up, and that kind of thing. So, this gives them a chance to recover from yesterday’s races.”
And that’s exactly how Karen Wilder saw it.