A 5k in Germany

I've been running a couple times a week with the LG-Goettingen. They're a track club here and they meet tuesdays and saturdays to work out (don't worry, I've been running on my own the other days). There is a race series in a city nearby. There is a race every wednsday. This week was the 5k. I asked them if I could go. I met Willhelm (the coach), Susanne, Sebastian and Franchesco at 4:50 and we drove to the meet in Willhelm's mini-van. I ran in the 16:00-18:00 heat, which was the second fastest. I ran with a pack of 4 other people, 2 sets of teammates for the first 4k. I made a move with 1000m left. One of the people in the pack was able to respond, but I beat the other three. I finished with a time of 16:56. It felt pretty good. There were a total of 5 heats, all with various time ranges. Willhelm was running in the fast heat which was last, so we stuck around untill the end.
They were playing music durring most of the meet. When I got back from my cool down I noticed they were playing Elton John. They proceded to play Elton John for the rest of the meet, which was about an hour and a half. Interspursed durring this was some offical doing a sort of play by play identifying the runners names. It was the strangest pronuciation of Read that I've heard. Later on in the meet, the anouncer decided it would be a good idea to sing along with "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" in a very think accent. Just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder, he attempted to give some sort of commentary on "Candle in the Wind." I'm not sure what he was saying, but he just started talking durring the song. It was a good meet. The final race of the series is next week, but it's a 10k, so I'm going to be taking a pass. Here are some pictures that Sebastian took of the race.