not the park

Today I walked down to the breakwater. It was cloudy and the ground was wet. The ice I had dumped out of two of the buckets in our yard still had not melted yet. When I was walking down to the breakwater and I was by and on the sea walk, I saw a lot of people running or jogging. When I was on the breakwater, it was high tide, and I saw some seagulls and ducks. I thought I saw some shore birds on the rocks by sage rock, but they were a little to far out to really tell and I didn’t have my camera with me. I also heard some of the people that were running farther back on the sea walk, talking. I also heard a car honk and some people cheering up by the library when I was on my way to the breakwater and on my way back from the breakwater. Were also some ravens and crows that I saw. When I was walking back into our yard, I saw some juncos and a song sparrow in our brush pile. The birds flew away when they saw me.
Why were the people running?
Why was the car honking?
Why were there so many people running?
Happy Thanksgiving!