mid- march running

I thought this was pretty cool.  My two running buddies and I are right next to each other on the March challenge.  The St. Patrick's Day run was great - had my best finish time - 28:17.  It stopped raining just as we began and started up as we walked to the car.  Couldn't ask for much more.

Me too

Lori is running tomorrow and so am I

I still need to find something green to wear and I am really hoping the rain will let up a bit - at least from 8-8:30 am!

5K revisited

We moved much closer to the start line this year.  With the marathon and 1/2 marathon happening tomorrow, we figured there were not as many "serious" runners so we ignored the pace signs.  Last year it took awhile to wedge ourselves through that start arch and really get moving. 
I hit my watch as we stepped on the timing pad.  At the one mile mark I looked down - 9:10 - WOW - that is pretty fast for us.  Ahead of us lay a fairly long incline, followed by an easy downhill before the turn around point.  We knew that we would have another steady incline after the turn around and then one last uphill section just before the finish.  I felt like I was working pretty hard and I guess I was because I came in at 30 minutes - 3 minutes faster than last year! 
It was a good race day.