Well I decided to start the year of racing off with a big one! The Cooper River Bridge Run/Walk is one of the most popular races in the southeast with well over 35,000 people participating. I was SO excited to run it. We got to Charleston Friday morning and stayed with our dear friends of the family, The Wieblers. My Mom, Kate, and Jay came up from Florida too for the weekend so that just added on to the excitement! Friday we went downtown to pick up our packets, t-shirts, etc. to get ready for Saturday. I was a gorgeous day and Tyler had fun hanging out with his Uncle Jay! We went to bed early Friday night so we would be well rested for Saturday's race since we had to get up about 4:45 AM to catch the shuttle to get to the starting line before the race at 8 AM. Here's a couple pictures..... (results at bottom of post!)
This is a head-band we found at the Expo the day before the race. I was SO excited to wear it... Kate and Mom got one too... so cute!
Here I am after the race once Mom and Kate found me in massive crowd! I'm not sure what my exact time was for the 10k but according to my watch is was around 52 minutes :) I plan to run it every year and hopefully better my time!
When I finished the race Tyler said "wow Mommy did you win?" "were you dancing?" I couldn't help but say, "Yep, I won!" and we all cheered :)
RESULTS ARE IN!- I looked at the website (http://www.bridgerun.com/) today and my results were posted! I ran the 6.2 miles in 52:338. It was about 6 minutes slower than the last 10k I ran over Thanksgiving before I got pregnant... and I was running 6-8 miles about 4 times a week then... and there were no hills.. either way, I have room to improve and am excited about it!
2 comments:
Jon said he bumped into you after the race! Wow! You did so great! I ran too but definitely not as fast. :)
Way to go Erin!
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