As I wrote in my invitation blog post, we got fortunate this year – Percona Live 2023 took place right after the Denver Marathon, which assembled us to put together a fantastic Database Runs event right before the conference.
Percona Staff, Conference Attendees, and local community members took part in this event, and we ran as four teams: MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
The Denver Marathon has more than 20,000 runners, and there were more than 1,000 Relay Teams (five members each) which makes for a fantastic run experience; there is always someone to chase, and there is always someone chasing you!
Weather also cooperated – while the day before and a couple of days after it was gloomy because of the forest, we had blue skies during our run.
Team PostgreSQL finished first, finishing #102, in the top 10% of all teams competing, which is a great result, considering so many of us were casual runners and also did not train at the “mile high” altitude of Denver. You can check other team results here by looking for the team number.
