dreamerjules

Today was the 5K. I made it. Here are my results. I'm not entirely sure that the total number of entries in the 5K, but whatever, I think I did pretty damn good for an out of shape, overweight 40 year old.

There was one gentleman walking in jeans, just strolling along. I pointed him out to Mamie and asked if it was okay if I hated him just a little. She said it was. Later he was much further ahead and I hated him a little bit more. :-)

It was pretty special. Not finishing was never an option, but a couple of times I thought a break would be nice. Kept a pretty steady pace throughout even though I fell behind the friends I was walking with. We pretty much stayed together until just after the 2 mile marker. A lady who had obviously finished came running/jogging back up against the tide. We thought she was nuts. When I got closer to the end, the people she had ran back to join caught up to me - and passed me - and it was a man walking hand in hand with a woman with Down's Syndrome. They were both being very solicitous of her and she just kept saying she was fine. As I was rounding the corner to the finish line, they asked everyone to move over to the left in single file because one of the wheelchair racers was coming in. That definitely puts things in perpective.

I'm definitely doing this again next year. The charity we were walking for, Kairos Outside didn't have the minimum required donations, but because it came so close with so few people - three women walking the 5K and one woman doing the half marathon - it will be able to be an official charity again next year.

Mamie and I at least are all ready planning to walk Race for the Cure in October and we should be able to get Debbie, the other walker today, to go with us.