About 2,200 runners participated in the annual Gobble Gallop on Thursday morning in Duluth. It featured a kids race, a 1-mile run and the main 5K run. Matt Welch of Duluth took first place in the 5K.
1/Ice crystals line Lesa Clauson’s eyelashes and eyebrows after she finished the 5K Gobble Gallop. The temperature at the start of the race was in the single digits below zero. Clauson lives in Duluth. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
2/Wearing “Wrong Holiday” T-shirts and green tutus, two race participants add color and humor to the 5K Gobble Gallop race in Duluth on Thursday morning. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
3/Cindy Spongberg (left); her daughter, Sarah Spongberg; and Alaina Graves, all of Superior, run in style with turkey-themed headgear and a tutu during the 5K Gobble Gallop. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
4/Myles Nelson of Superior feels right at home during Thursday’s Gobble Gallop with his “running turkey” cap. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
5/Lisa South of Cloquet (left) and Abby Garcia, 10, of Rochester, Minn., hold signs and shout words of support when they see Nancy Cameron of Duluth (Abby’s grandmother and South’s mother) approach the finish line in the Gobble Gallop 5K race. (Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com)
