5K

I'm not sure if I've already mentioned this on the blog before but a while ago Debbie and I talked each other into training for a half marathon. We are not really sure how it happened but next thing we knew we were buying a book on marathon training which Debbie committed to read for the two of us. After a few days of reading the book, Debbie got all sorts of inspired and convinced me to that we should do a full marathon... You have to understand that Debbie and I are not runners nor are we particularly athletic (Debbie did play basketball in high school but it's been a while and I've never really done anything of the athletic variety). But we figured it could we should try and we started training... 

So, as part of the training you end up running a number of different races (5K, 10K, Half Marathon, and then the Marathon). We've been meaning to do the Rex Lee Run for years but never got around to it until now... Debbie and I are a few week off on our training and I was scheduled to run my 5K last week and Debbie was scheduled to run her 5K next week but the Rex Lee Run was today so we ran it today. This was our first race EVER and we were pretty excited about it which, of course, means we had to document it. So here are a few pictures of our race day.  

We were supposed to be at the track by 8:45 am today (half our before the cannon was scheduled to go off for the 5K) so I stopped by Debbie's around 8:15 to pick her up and get our numbers pinned on our shirts and our chips attached to our shoes. One of the ties that came with Debbie's chip wasn't working very well so it took us a while to get her chip attached but here we are pre-race working on getting the chip on her shoe. 

 

Here we are at the track waiting for the race to begin. We were late getting there (good thing we weren't running the 10K that started at 9:00 am) but it was probably good because we would have frozen had we stood outside longer than we had too (we did freeze but it would have been worse had we been there longer). Today was a beautiful day, the nicest we've had in a LONG time, but it was cold this morning...

This is a shot of me doing my last 100 meters... (I'm the one that you can't really see).

And here's Debbie doing her last 100 meters. She's the one with the long ponytail.  

And Debbie post-race pretending to be completely worn out which she wasn't at all :). 

Finished! 

We didn't get our results from the race until later in the day but it turns out that I came in 9th out of 162 for our age group (25-29) and ran the 5K in 25:14.04 mins and Debbie ran the 5K in 32:42.59 mins. We thought we did pretty well for our first race! :)

 

The Rex Lee Run is a run for cancer so Debbie and I ran in honor of 2 cancer survivors we love and admire. I ran for my mother-in-law who was diagnosed with and underwent treatment for breast cancer in 2004. Debbie ran for my sister-in-law who was diagnosed with and underwent treatment for breast cancer in 2007. 

  

And here's a picture of our one fan (and photographer).

Counseling Psychology represented! 

Laurie and Kristina are both first years in our program who also participated in the Rex Lee Run (they ran the 10k instead of the 5K). 

So anyway, there it is... we successfully completed our first race! :)