Dad and I started out with the 700 of our closest friends and ran solid for the first 8 minutes. We were towards the end of the trails behind the school we took a walking break and I took off the extra layer I had on so I was more comfortable. Our pace for the first mile was fast! We kept at the 3 minutes run/ 2 minutes walk... stopped for the water stop and realized that we were still way ahead of what I had thought. We slowed it down a bit more, walked the peds walkway and then ran in the rest of the way, arond the warning track. Ran through mud and finished up strong crossing the line with my dad with my mom talking pictures the whole time.

Not much... good race considering my legs were a little tired and a little sore.

Walked and collected my finisher's medal and ticket for a free baseball game. We met up with Mom and had more pictures and then walked over and hit the buffet and had a nice breakfast watching the kids race.


My lack of running training this year, but after 8 miles yesterday I am very happy with what happened today... good sign of things to come??? We will see :)


There were only two problems with the race... one we could not hear the National Anthem until about half way through and that allowed the people to talk for too long, but it wasn't there fault. The second problem was a lack of bananas at the finish!! No bananas... booo :( But otherwise this is a wonderful race. The Pacesetters put on another in August called the Cheesehead... it is a 5K and half marathon... might do that one too!