The Kenyan Within: she runs, we run, I run

the she runs run like a girl 10K race recap and sparkle skirt debut

first things first, the rest of my week:

m: my right hamstring has been hurting, so I took the day off.

t: an hour ride with tori on the legacy parkway trail. at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. in 100 degree heat. we were a little hot and dehydrated by the end. but we did take full advantage of that splash park on our way back.

w: again, I didn't do anything. the hamstring was still bugging me. though I did walk both kids over to a local park in the running stroller, so that counts for something, right?

h: my first run of the week. I just tried to take it easy. it was probably around 3 miles.

f: I did the cotton bottom ride and I think it took about an hour. I didn't want to kill my legs since I had a race the next morning.

s: the run like a girl 10K!

I don't usually do 10Ks (as you can see by my lack of knowing what my 10K PR is) but I couldn't pass up doing a race with my two friends, natalie and tori. natalie and I just had our second babies only days apart, so it was fun to get back into the swing of things with her. and tori is just awesome and inspirational and I want to be just like her someday (aka super fast). so yes, I paid to run 6.2 miles.

and it was a blast.

did I mention this was an all girl 10K put on by she runs? and that it was in midway, utah so super pretty?? and that I had a pretty pink sparkly team sparkle running skirt on???

yeah, it was awesome.

within the first mile you start a mile-long climb up memorial hill. then you turn around and make a loop back into the city park. there was just one more baby hill in there, so it wasn't too bad. natalie and I ran the whole thing together. tori was too fast for us. we did have to stop twice to stretch. I was getting tight and just really needed it. with about a quarter mile left I asked nat if we could kick up the pace just a bit to bring it home. as we crossed the finish line the announcer asked us if we ran faster because of our sparkly skirts. we did. it was awesome.

I came in at 1:00:09 or something like that. natalie was right behind me. it was about a 9:40 average pace, which I'll take at the moment. both tori and natalie placed in their age group, which was awesome. go girls, go!