Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Monument Ave 10k - I DID IT!

This past Saturday, March 31st, I ran my first race ever - the Monument Ave 10K in Richmond, VA!

I surprised myself by running the WHOLE THING! No stopping to walk!! Can you believe it??? Because I can't! The whole time I was running I was thinking "This is sooo weird!"

My goal was to make it to mile 3.1. I'm running two 5ks this month so I wanted to make sure I could do it! Once I got to mile 3.1, I didn't want to stop! And by the time I made it to mile 4, I knew that if I stopped I wouldn't start running again.... so I didn't stop!!!

Seth was much faster than me and ended up running ahead of me by mile 2. He finished the race in 1 hour and 3 minutes. I finished in 1 hour and 17 minutes :)

Here are some pictures from after we finished the race!
We did it!!

The whole gang

Me and Cousin Emma

So happy to be done!


Me and big brother
(who caught a lot of shit for his awesome shirt! GO DUKES!)


JMU gang representing (minus mom)


Our photographer and #1 cheerleader!
(we had to take this picture because we got a good laugh at his umbrella/coat tail)


Next stop: 3 mile run in Indianapolis where I will be for a work conference!

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