Day 99: 5K Race!

Today is Father's Day and the Run 4 Your Life 5K to benefit a local prostate and breast cancer charity. It was rainy and the race started at 8:30am, so my parents, Robin and Emily M all bailed on racing with me. Luckily, I connected with Kristen, a fellow Philly Knottie and we met up and ran together which was a lot of fun.

Overall, the race went really well - the course was fairly flat and I was feeling great and I finished in 27 minutes and 20 seconds, which is a full 2+ minutes faster than my last 5K!! Though I didn't manage to stay with Kristen the entire time, she came in less than a minute after me and then we had some bananas and soft pretzels together before heading home.

I am really proud of myself for increasing my running time and really appreciative that Scott came out to support me in the rain when everyone else bailed on me. I am also really thankful that I got to meet Kristen and Tom because they were both awesome and hopefully Kristen and I will begin running together on Sundays from now on!

SO all in all, it was a very great day and I am feeling good :o)