We started the bridge run weekend at the Kid's Expo and Fun Run. Noah and some friends signed up for the toddler races and got shirts and race numbers and a medal.
Of course his "race" was more of what I consider, three year olds and crazed parents with cameras running for 25 yards in a mob, but whatever. I hope it is the start of Noah loving running events and I can't wait until he is old enough to run with me. Plus his shirt fits him like a dress which is pretty funny.
My race experience started at 4:00am. I had to be up in time to get downtown, catch a bus to Mount Pleasant before they closed the bridge, and then wait for 2 hours in the cold. Needless to say I was very ready when they announced that runners should be in there corrals.
Warning.....here comes my insane ranting....Okay, if you are a walker and have signed up as a walker, and been given a bib with a color coded number that tells you to be in the back corral with the walkers, why oh why are you in my corral wearing your cotton t-shirt and fixing your hair and talking about how you hope you don't get run over. Cause you will get run over, because the gun will go off and the runners will attempt to run and you will be IN THE WAY!
Anyhoo...So I started and had to weave in and out of about a million walkers but somehow still managed to be under 10 minutes for my first mile. The bridge appears in the second mile and as we began the climb I was waiting for the crowds to thin out as we dropped the people who had started too fast and then fizzled away on the uphills but that didn't happen. The crowds did not thin out until we hit downtown during mile 5. And even then it was still very packed. Not a good race for trying to PR but fun all the same. I love running over the bridge and into downtown in my favorite city. Plus the weather was perfect, almost 60 degrees and sunshine.
Despite the crazy crowds and my erratic weaving in and out, I managed to finish in 57:53. I was content with that seeing as how I had just run the half marathon the weekend before. I was proud because I pushed the whole way and was always passing instead of being passed and I finished feeling pretty spent.
I don't really know what race is next for me - I don't have anything specific lined up - but I am thinking I will have to find something soon. These past two weekends have reminded me how much fun it is to get out there and race!
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