This Run's for You!

In preparation for the Rock n Roll Half Marathon that Frank & I signed up for this Labor Day weekend in Virginia Beach, I completed my first 5K of the season yesterday - the 11th Annual Cassidy & Pinkard Colliers Race for Hope, which benefits the brain tumor society. I picked this particular 5K in support of my cousin, Lea, who is dealing with the after affects of being born with a brain tumor. I usually like to run about 6 miles, so I wasn’t worried about the 3.2 yesterday – Instead, I set a goal to complete it under 28 minutes. I typically run at a slower pace, about a 10 (or so) minute mile, but figured since I was only doing about 3 miles, I could pick up the pace. After metro’ing to Freedom Plaza, I was quite surprised at the turnout for the race – about 8,000 people! It was organized really well and proved to be a nice, short (and more importantly, FLAT) run in front and around the capital building. To make the race even better, I beat my goal by almost 3 whole minutes! :)