I’ve been pretty pumped about this race for two months now. It’s a 5K (3.1 miles) race around Lake McIntosh in North-west Longmont. I was pumped for two reasons:
1. When Jim, James and I moved to Colorado after graduating from BYU, we lived in some apartments RIGHT next to this lake. At the time I was car-less, which left me with limited entertainment options. When the weather was nice (which was often….come on…this is COLORADO!) I would take James on stroller runs around Lake McIntosh. So. A race around Lake McIntosh was like having home-field advantage.
2. Race Date: April 26. I don’t know about you, but when I hear April 26, I see blue skies and warm air–perfect running conditions.
So I still had “home-field advantage,” but blue skies and warm air was DEFINITELY not in the agenda. I hate making excuses, and I really hate hearing other people make excuses, but HOLY COW. It was FREEZING and the wind was OUT.OF.CONTROL. I definitely didn’t do as well as I had hoped, but I guess it was fun (as soon as I was finished anyway). I placed 25th out of 183 women. ROCK ON!
Here are some photos compliments of my dad and Jim:
“warming up” before the race:
though it may not look like it, I PROMISE I AM running here
YAY! YOU DO ROCK IT! This is soooo awesome…i can’t belive the race was already here! I’m sooo glad you did soooo well. James looks like a little adult. ;)