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
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)
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
0 times did we stop and walk! (yay for no knee pain or extreme heat)
3 running buddies
6 minis ran by my papa
5 minis ran by me
3 minis ran by MJ
Countless moments of laughing
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 stepmom
1 first time 500 festival 5k runner!!!! So proud of my guy!!!
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
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
2 corny jokes to keep us going
1 adorable husband who is so very supportive of all the things I do
Thanks for following along
xoxo
an excellent list! love ya!! :)
ReplyDeletethanks:) Love you:)
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