The Rudolph Ramble was awesome. Sammi and I slept over at Shelly's apartment in the city the night before (and went out to a party at Bridget's) so we were super tired! Luckily Shelly gave us a ride to the race (it was right by Lincoln Park Zoo). Jenie, Brock and Eric met us at the race. Sammi was our lovely photographer/holder of all of our stuff :) It was really cute, they handed out antlers for everyone to wear during the race (so of course I had to) and Santa was there to take pictures with. It was all for a good cause: Lurie Children's Hospital. They had the cutest "reindeer dash" after the race that the kids all did, I can't wait for Dylan to do that!
I had never done an 8k before, but I loved the distance (it is just under 5 miles). It was my first race running with Eric and I reaaaaally wanted to beat him - and I did (barely). I'm sure it helped that he doesn't really run outside ever, but oh well :) It was a super fast race but I was really happy with how it went. Here were my stats:
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The night before my birthday we went down to the city to do the Run for Gus. Bridget put together a team "Gannon's Groupies" to honor her brother and help raise money for Lurie Children's Hospital. Uncle Donny, Dylan, Shelly, Genna and I all drove down to the city and we barely made it in time for the race, traffic was soo bad! It took us over 3 hours to get there, Gr. Anyway, once we were there we did the race and then went out for drinks and fun! :) They had an awesome after party at the Nature Museum that let you have UN-limited drinks...this is definitely a race we have to do again next year!
During the race I just tried to keep up with Genna & Shelly, they were going waaay too fast for me. I was really proud that I stayed with them the whole time! :) Results: * 24:49 was my total time which made 9:00 min/miles. |
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