My friend Jana and I have been running for a little over a month now and we decided to try running a few races, just for fun.
So, yesterday we ran in the Wasatch Mental Health Race for Recovery 5k. We were pretty nervous, so we were setting really low goals for ourselves, like finishing in under 40 minutes (which would pretty much be walking most of the time!). So, it just made it that much more fun when we had no problem running the whole time, and when we finished well below our goal. Our official times were 29:13 (me) and 29:14 (Jana), which means that we got 3rd and 4th place for our age range. It was so fun! It's such a beautiful course, and thankfully not very hilly. It was, however, extremely cold when we started!!!
This year, Dan and the kids came to cheer me on, which was awesome! I've never had Dan there when I finished a race before, and it motivated me a lot to know that he and the kids were waiting at the finish line.
I ran this race last year, by my self, but it wasn't very fun all by my lonesome. I told Jana yesterday that I will never run a race without her again! It was amazingly better to run with someone! So, our next race will be the Cougar Run 5k, anyone want to come along???
4 comments:
Way to go! You are much better than I am!
Yea! I was on such a high all day yesterday. I had a great time. See you bright an early monday! :) by the way thanks for the help with my blog! you're fabulous.
WOW..thats awesome! I need to run in one of those one of these days:) Oh BTW... I don't play violin anymore...I wish I did but I quit when I was younger. Maybe one of these days when I have time for myself I will pick it back up again.
freak lady. you ARE talented. too bad you would kick my butt anyday.
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