Race Day

Hailey is in a "girl's running club" called She Can.  At the end of their season, they sign up for a race in town.  They encourage the girls to race the 5K, but I knew Hailey probably wouldn't be ready for that.  Plus, all the other kids wanted to sign up to race, too.  So I signed them all up for the 1/2 mile fun run.

I signed up for the 10K and then ran with the kids in the 1/2 mile run, too.  Pretend I'm in the picture wearing a blue t-shirt, too.  Also, pretend they have race numbers on...we put them on our coats instead because it was 32 degrees and snowing outside.  Brrr.  Tyler was 3rd, I think.  I ran with Hailey and Ashley in the middle of the pack, and Trevor "ran" with Jason to bring up the rear.  Jason wasn't dead last, only 2nd to last. :) But you would have thought he won the way he ran across the finish line as fast as he could.  Cute. He keeps mentioning the race he ran in.  Mentions it lots of times...

It was a pretty fun day. My race went pretty well, too.  I thought I would have been colder running the 10K, but it wasn't too bad.  The bad part was squishing through the mud when the race went off road.  It slows you down a bit.  I placed 5th in the women and 3rd in my age group with a time of 51:45.  So hopefully in a couple weeks I can do the half marathon in under 2 hours.  Here's for hoping!  I'm sure that will be the next post you hear about :) Wish me luck!