With Will before the race
Today is my 1 year Runiversary!
I went back to the very first race I ran: The Susan G Komen Race for the Cure in Los Angeles. This was at Dodger Stadium. It was a beautiful day, great weather!
We got there at 7:45 am. I was a team leader this year and I wanted to meet with everyone before the race! They had a gate up to separate the runners from the walkers. That was a good idea but one of the woman "in charge" was drunk on power and she was yelling at the runners to go lined up 20 minutes before the start so we had to take our pictures minus 3 people. Sorry Julie! :(
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| My TEAM minus a couple people, I am in the middle with the hat. |
After that I headed to the starting line with Rebekah:
Lot's of people at this race. Lot's of pink everywhere, lot's of survivors, this is a special race. I was feeling OK, not great, thanks to the allergy season in action here in California. Right at the start we had to go up a nasty HILL. I remembered from last year. That was hard. It is long and steep. I had trouble breathing during that but I kept telling myself that it would go down eventually! And it did! Rebekah and I stayed together for the most part. First mile pace faster then I thought. I was wondering if I could keep this for another 2. I don't like 5k I am so not a sprinter.
They had 3 water stations on the course and I decided to skip all of them, I did not want to walk and I cannot drink and run. Rebekah stopped at one but she caught up with me at the end. At the second station some guy took a cup and tripped on someone and his water ended up on me making me look like I had peed on myself! Thank you dude in the black hat!
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| Nice look I know! Jonathan said " Mom you KNOW they have toilets here!!!" I finished 6 minutes faster then last year: 29:52. I placed 10 in my age group. This is my first time under 30 minutes for a 5k. I am happy with that considering the HILL at mile 1 and that I am not 100%.   |
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| With Rebekah at the end. She beat me by 22 seconds! I am OK with that. She is 16 yrs YOUNGER then me!!! |
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| With Julie from The HotLegs Runner |
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| Jonathan working on his quads!!! |
23 comments:
Great pictures and a great run! Congrats on your PR.
Great job sub30 and with the runniversary! Sounds like a great day and a good cause.
Congrats on your 5k!!! Looks like a great race and a lot of fun!!!
Congrats on the sub-30!!! Great pictures! Love the pee-pee pants. lol
YEAH!!! Nice job Caroline!! Happy runner-versary!!! you look awesome--no pukie award though?
I wanna move to cali :(
So fantastic!!!! Breaking 30 ... what a great way to celebrate that one year anniversary! Congrats! Also loving the shorts ;-) I always dump water over my head in races and end up looking like that, too.
Excellent immprovement! looked like a good day
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Awsome race time!! Wow! I love the Susan G race, but I usually walk it vs run it because there are so many people and it's hard to actually get started running.
Awesome PR, you ROCK! Looks like a beautiful day and a wonderful race...
Congrats
Charity races are so much more fun to do
Really so awesome!! My dream is a sub- 30 5k :D You are livin' the dream, girl, ha ha!
Great job Caroline! A PR and a great cause! :)
6 minutes is great, congratulations!! Love all the smiling pictures :).
Great pics except for the Rockies hat at the end.
Nice job on shaving off 6 minutes. That's huge.
I am SO behind! Great pics-great race and congrats on the PR!!!! Awesome! Yes-you might have about 2 feet on Julie-ha! If you keep improving like this, big things ahead for you!!
thank you all!!!
the 6 min is over a year and I was a really slow turtle...still not that fast...
Awesome!!
You. Rock.
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Blue devils.
Awesome job and such great pictures. Well, except for the peed your pants one. :) Hey, my 1 year runiversary is coming up, too! I'm definitely going to steal your word for that blog post.
Kids will say the darndest things. ...and that's why we love them! haha
Congrats on not only beating your previous time, but doing so while under the weather! Just think of what you could have done at 100%!
congratulations on the race! and a sub-30 nonetheless! great job! I wish I knew you were going to be there, so I could congratulate you in person! :-)
Great job.
Great race!! Congrats on the PR. I remember the 1st time I finished under 30. We have this race in October.
Congrats on the PR and for running for a great cause!
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