Race for the Cure

We partcipated in Race for the Cure on Saturday, October 4th with our good friends Tahlia and Jeff Butler. We thought the Sprint for Life race that we ran about 6 months ago was big, but there were 30,000 people who showed up for this race. It shows all the support for breast cancer. It was neat to see the survivors participating in the race, who were wearing pink shirts. They divided the race into three categories: competitive runners, non-competitive runners, and walkers. We ran in the second category. I thought the last race was difficult to weave around people, but this race was twice as hard. There were people everywhere, and I wasn't even pushing the stroller! I felt like I was booking it the whole way and my side ached pretty bad when I was done, but I sprinted the last stretch and felt so good about my run until I saw my time. I set a goal to run under 27 minutes (it's a 5K...a little over 3 miles) and my finished time was 29:30. I guess all the weaving I had to do around people took more time than I thought! I'm running in The Woodlands' Turkey Trot in November which is a 5 mile run, so now I've got to work up to running 5+ miles every day in order to prepare. It's fun to run in an organized race to mix things up a bit.