We did some races last month! I kept putting off posting about them, but no more.
First, on the 19th we joined in the Pound the Pavement For Parenthood crowd in Orem. We heard about this race through Groupon or some such, and hadn't ever run it before, but it was fun and a pretty good, level course, and maybe we'll do it again next year. What cause could be better than helping young couples who are hoping and praying and trying to add a wee young human to their family? The boys did the 5K, and The Wife decided to go for the 10K this time. There were quite a few runners for the 5K, but the 10 didn't have quite as many as we expected, and it was hot but not miserable. I did pretty well at about 23:54 (7:25/mile), not my fastest, but pretty good for pushing a stroller, and it was 3.2 miles too, coming in apparently 2nd overall (they only gave awards for first place, and evidently the guy ahead of me was also pushing a stroller. Fitting for a family-themed race, eh?), and then I backtracked on the 10K route and we all finished Julie's race together. Then during the awards they actually gave away several IVF cycles to some lucky raffle-winners, which may or may not have made certain parties cry just a bit.
Then, on Pioneer Day of all days, we went from Temple...
... to Temple!
Mom and Dad joined us for our fun Pioneer Day race. We were a little late getting started (so we parked farther away, thinking there would be no parking up at the temple, of which there turned out to be plenty...), which was kind of frustrating, since we were at the back of the pack from the very start, which meant that we were basically running into hundreds of street-wide walls of thousands of moseying people the entire time. Still, we weaved our way through and made it to the end, and I had to get over my racing instinct of trying to go as fast as I possibly could, since it just wasn't going to happen.
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| Thanks for coming, Mom and Dad! |
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| Baby's a lot bigger than he was at this race last year. |
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| Ahahaha, his first [running] bib. |
Yay for summer races! (Though I always look forward to the fall ones more.)
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