Today we met the Elliotts at Harriet Island in St. Paul to run the Time to Fly race, which is a benefit to raise money for childhood cancer research. Even though it was quite hot and sticky, we all ran well, and I even beat my PR for the 5K by a minute! In fact, I finished 11th out of 300 women (since my running abilities are very hard won, I have to brag whenever I can)!
Jason and I ran the 5K, and Laura, Karl, and Colin ran the kids' 1K.
At the starting line.
This was at the beginning of the run. It's nice running a race with Jason. You just tell him what your goal pace is, and that's how fast he'll go...and he never slows down...even when you just want to stop...
This is at the end of the race. I didn't have the energy to move my eyeballs to look over at our cheering fans, but at least I knew they were there. And I stayed with Jason (or rather, he stayed with me) and we had a great finish!
Next was the kids' race. All three kids ran great races. I mean, just look how happy Laura is to be healthy and strong enough to run a 1k!
Karl coming in for his big finish. He told me he was going to run hard for all the kids who were sick with cancer. And he sure did!
I was standing at the last corner before the finish line when I spotted Colin running. When he heard me cheer him on, he put on his determined face and tore off to the end!
All the kids who finished the race got medals and giant koosh balls. Yay!
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