My friend Amber & I completed our first race today – a 10km! Amber had a lofty goal of finishing in under an hour. I quite frankly, just wanted to finish….but was aiming for a time of 1 hour 5 minutes. It was a cool day, windy at times, but we managed! We've been doing 10-1 intervals – meaning 10 minutes of running and 1 minute of walking, repeatedly. We started out rather fast, and did slow down near the end…well…I did at least LOL. However, I finished faster than I'd hoped (not sure what the exact time was but it was under 1 hour 5 minutes – by a couple of minutes or so!) and Amber broke the hour mark. It was a fun and great experience…though I did have a quick nap this afernoon LOL.
Here's some photos from the day – and thanks to my mom (aka "Grandma") and my son for coming to cheer me on – that's part of the reason for my big smile near the finish line – seeing D cheering for me!
Here we are, looking happy and excited at the start line…
Approaching the finish line. "Upright and smiling" for sure!!
The posed after shot 🙂
but I had to include the next shot because it makes me laugh – this is more what we really were like, I think!!!!
Amber's talking I think, but I'm just happy to still be upright – I think this was literally a minute or two after I crossed the line. I think Amber's holding me up…ROFLOL.
Thanks for looking, just wanted to share this part of my running journey with you all. Back to crafty stuff in the next post, promise!!
SO PROUD OF YOU!!!! Grinning from ear to ear for you!! (((hugs)))