Race It

Since Ryan and I are back in Richmond, we knew we wanted to do the annual 10K Monument Ave race Richmond puts on every April.

We started training for it in January, but since we went on our cruise in March, I pretty much slacked afterwards and never got back on track.  Blue Bell Ice Cream came to Richmond right around the same time we got back from our vacation, so really it's all Blue Bell's fault!

Two Wednesday's ago I went for a short 2 mile run and afterwards, my right leg was killing me.  I could barely walk in heels at work for a couple of days and definitely did not feel prepared to run the 10k.

I waited up until yesterday morning to go ahead and give the run a shot.  I haven't even run over 6 miles in God knows how long, so I wasn't feeling too confident.  I started the race with Ryan but since he's a much faster runner than me, he left me in his dust at about mile .0002.

To be fair to myself, I made it a goal to just run the whole 6.2 miles.  There were times I had really bad cramps and some times that I was feeling a little faint, but I somehow ran the whole thing.  Not only that, but I did it in under an hour!

59 minutes and 58 seconds, to be exact.

I'm proud of myself and proud of Ryan for doing it in 45 minutes!  To answer your question, yes, he is half Kenyan.

Just now I decided to look up my past times just to see how I compare to my younger self.  I've done this race 2 times before and couldn't remember how I did it, but I know I trained for it a lot more and had a much younger body!


2008 (I was 23) I ran the race in 58'54"
2009 (24) I ran the race in 58'20"


Fast forward to my verging 29 year old body, I did it in 59'58".   Considering my lack of training, I'll take it!

I hope everyone else who did the race had as much fun as I did!  I'm so glad I decided to run, even though my body is way more sorer today than it's ever been. :)