World Sisterhood EA Sports Run Day

Yesterday was World Run Day 2009 and also our EA Sports Active 5k Challenge over at The Sisterhood.  There was no race in my area yesterday, so I had to come up with own route.  Luckily, there’s a race in a couple of weeks so I just went online and stole the course.

And oh my, it was a beautiful day for running.  It was sunny and mid 60s.  The park was PACKED! It was kind of like being in a race anyway.

So, I donned my GPS and my iPod.  I had my directions all written out (It was 11 turns…I wasn’t about to try and remember all of that.  The directions continued on the inside of my hand, LOL!)

I had my print out bib provided by World Run Day. Click on the pick to see who I was running for.

And most importantly, I had my headband and tube socks. (FYI, if you ever want tube socks in a pinch and can’t find any, red duct tape works WONDERS on a pair of regular ol’ tube socks.)

Why the tube socks?  Well, to promote the newest challenge over at The Sisterhood, of course.  I’ll let you go there to read about it.

And off I went.  I had one goal in mind: to run the whole thing.

Alas, it wasn’t meant to be.  Stupid hills.  I really hate running on any kind of incline.  I ended up walking for a total of 2:30 (in 3 separate chunks) and had a final time of 35:14. But that’s still 11 seconds off my last race!

I hit 3.1 miles before I made it back to Dave (you gotta love a man who says “Sure, I’ll come take pictures of your fake race!”) which is why I’m walking.  He said I should have run it out to him.

Whatever.

But for the first time ever, I placed first in my age group!!  Whoohoo!!