First Blog-5k

Okay, after many months of hesitation to start a blog, I've decided to go ahead and start one. The reason I've been so hesitant is because who will read it anyway? I'm not sure. Brian saw a shirt the other day that said "More people have read this shirt than have read your blog." There was a picture of a counter at the bottom and it said 002. I thought it was quite hilarious. On Saturday, I did something that I thought was worth blogging about. I ran my first 5k. I know it's only 3.1 miles, but it's a start. It was at the Shutzenfest in Midway. When I signed up, it said it was partly road and partly trail. Little did I know that the trail would be up a mountain. YIKES! When we pulled in the parking lot, I saw all the runners and almost threw up. I thought that 5ks would have moms who were going to walk the race. Not here, they were all "actual" runners. Needless to say, even with my nausea, Brian would not let be back out. I must say though it was beautiful. Most of the race was in the trees and they were all changing colors. Halfway through it started to rain which actually felt quite nice. In the end, I took 4th place for my age group 20-24 in women. HOORAH I did it and I actually a came in 4th. Who knew!

I'm looking quite gross in this picture, I just finished running. See the mountain behind me, that's where the race was. Beautiful!!