Tuesday, July 1, 2014

"Did You Have Fun??"

This was the question my husband asked after I called him on my way home tonight.  Our local Lululemon store hosted their 2nd annual Lemon Chase 5K tonight and my friend JoAnn talked me into doing it.  I figured it would be good practice for the Superhero race I've been preparing for. 

We were there among a couple hundred of our closest friends, ha!  When I picked up my race chip I got a little intimidated.  I don't think I look like a runner, and everyone around me looked the part.  Clearly anyone that's coming out on a random Tuesday night probably means business!  Luckily as we got closer to the race more and more "normal" people started showing up! ;-)


Pre-race pic
We all got lined up and they started the race.  They forgot to mention before we started that there would be some hills in this course.  I'm actually glad I didn't know that before...some things are better off as a surprise!  We got going, and I found myself actually not hating life.  I managed to finish, and I could not have been more thrilled!  What a rush to cross that finish line!  

My results
 I managed to finish 86th out of over 200 people.  Not bad for my first race running it all.  I finished 21st in my age range, and 57th in my gender.  Not sure how many people were in my age range, but I guarentee it was the largest group there since that's what we're all doing in our thirties these days! ;-)

We did it!!
 When Jovan asked me if I had fun, I told him that I don't think that I will ever use "fun" as an adjective describing running, but I certainly feel accomplished.  I finally achieved that "runner's high" and look forward to many more races!

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