5 K in St. George

Dennis and Lynda invited Jack and I plus LaRee and Gary to come to St. George for the weekend to do the "Save a Sister 5 K" and to stay at their home for a mini vacation.  Jack and I drove down with LaRee and Gary on Friday night and met Dennis and Lynda there, in fact we beat them there.

   Here we all are early Saturday morning,  ready for our races....don't we bright eyed and bushy tailed?

  As many of you know, my brother Dennis has ran many marathons in the past 10 years, so he registered for the 10 K, which is 6.13 miles.  Lynda has participated in several 5 Ks, which is 3.13 miles.   But for the rest of us, none of us have participated in one, ( I walked in one for breast cancer in Phoenix at the beginning of the month.  It hardly counts, there are so many people walking that one can hardly move, very crowded.)  This was my first race where your time is posted.

I walked a 5 K every morning with Lynda so I wasn't worried.

Gary, LaRee, me and Lynda just before the start of our race.

I had ABBA on my ipod (I finally got tired of the soundtrack from "Momma Mia") and was in my personal best walking mode....Lynda was right there close by and Gary and LaRee were pulling up the rear.  We each walked our personal best, keep in mind that we all are in 4 different age catagories.  For example, I was in the 50 to 54 age group.

Here I am, hamming it up for my picture as I cross the finish line.  See how serious I take this race?  I was having fun and happy to be done.  You can't see Lynda but she wasn't far behind me. 

Here's my time....I finished in 100th place overall, and 6th in my age group.  My time was 42:08.4 which meant I walked 13.33 minutes a mile.  There were nine people in my age group and the best time in my age level was like 29 or 30 minutes.  It's nice to know that I have room for improvement (I'm rolling my eyes)

 

Me with my walking buddy, my sister in law Lynda.  I wanted to beat her but she just kept right there with me!  Don't get me wrong, we both did really well, our personal best, but because of our age difference, we weren't in the same group, so while our times were the same, I was 6th place for my age group, Lynda was in 2 in her's!  And she was to win an award!!!!

Lynda excepting her 2 place award, the coveted acrylic cancer awareness ribbon.

 My sister LaRee won the 3rd place award for her age group, well, actually they put her in the wrong age group, made her a year younger, but that's ok, she still would have been in 3rd place and did very well.

I won nothing, but the personal satisfaction of doing my best and the determination to continue to take the opportunites to participate in future 5 Ks, maybe even venturing to 10 Ks and beyond...as I grow older to where my time will eventually be the fastest for my age group!

My brother Dennis did his personal best in his 10K, I believe he was a few minutes after us and he did 6.13 miles almost the same time as we did our 3.13!  But then remember, he's a seasoned runner and I wish I could be like that.  Right now, I'm still sticking to the 5Ks, and walking.

I think this picture is really cute of LaRee, Lynda and Dennis (and a bit of my profile), I believe we were giggling about the find awards they were giving out....the acrylic cut out in the shape of the breast awareness ribbon.  Lynda was hoping for the pink socks.

After the races, we showered, then the guys went golfing while us girls went shopping.  Then we went to Pancho Lefty's for a good mexican dinner then back to the house to watch BYU lose.   During the game, Lynda baked us some pumpkin cookies that were excellent, but after the game we still had to go to Neilson's, one of our St. George traditions, to buy our super yummy custards!  Sooooo good!

We had so much fun on our little mini vacation!  Thanks Lynda and Dennis! 

Watch for us in the next 5K....we can only get better!!!