Wednesday, May 16, 2012

we ran the good race!

A list (you know I am sucker for a good list) of the 500 Festival’s Mini Marathon…

13.1 miles

13ish weeks of training

11 miles was the furthest we trained for this time

1 race this year before this one

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Monday was our long run training day…until MJ changed it to Tuesdays

2 hours 27 min (not record setting, but we were quite happy with the time)

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2 homemade granola bars during the race

many many cups of water

2 people recruited to run the mini next year (YAY Trent and Mike)

5 people we knew along the race

0 is the number of people dad threw Gatorade at this year (2 years ago at mile 12.5 he threw a nearly full cup of Gatorade at some young man)

50-ish pictures taken during the run

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0 times did we stop and walk! (yay for no knee pain or extreme heat)

3 running buddies

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6 minis ran by my papa

5 minis ran by me

3 minis ran by MJ

Countless moments of laughing

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0 bathroom breaks (new record!!)

2 bathroom breaks before the race (ew port-a-pots)

2 5k-ers we cheered on (really 4, but we just rode down with 2) (sorry no picture of my lovely stepmomSad smile before the race)

1 first time 500 festival 5k runner!!!!  So proud of my guy!!!

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1 sore foot (this girl had a small tendinitis issue)

1 sore toe (daddio)

1 not really sore at all (mj)

3 red hats for our cheering section to easily see us

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14.5 miles what my ipod nike + censor said we ran

1 person needing their gall bladder out but was still a trooper (good work MJ)

1 famous track to run around

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2 corny jokes to keep us going

1 adorable husband who is so very supportive of all the things I do

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Thanks for following alongSmile

xoxo

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