Saving Second Base

Much racing was done in NJ/PA last weekend (congrats to all of you!) and NYC was no exception. 25,000+ people joined me (cause I asked them) in the Susan G. Komen 5k walk/run in Central Park.

The best part was the pre-race peptalk by some very special guests (mainly because I was sitting down through it.) 

My favorite was Stephen Colbert who said "I hope I'm running behind someone who is very slow" and also (i paraphrase) "when you feel you're running out of breath, repeat my mantra 'I'm Kenyan, I'm Kenyan' ". Good and funny mantra. I also liked his Jazz rendition of the National Anthem. It was good!

It was a cool start. They had confetti for both the runners' wave and the walkers' wave. 

I started w the walkers since I knew I could not run the whole distance yet. I walked the first mile and saw a runner merge in with the walkers so I thought, well if one person is only jogging 1 mile, I can do that too. When I reached mile 2, I started my week 5 workout: 5min jog, 3 min walk times 3. 

I wondered how far that would take me. In the workout it says that 5 minutes should be 1/2 mile. HA.

I ran/walked a 16 minute mile! I know you're all shaking your heads. But hey, it was good for me. I jogged for 5 more minutes and walked for the rest of mile 3 (though I did jog across the finish line)

With the mile two workout, my total walk/jog time was 56.23. Lots of room for improvement :)

In mile 3, the woman who started next to me caught up with me, she had walked the whole thing. And a coworker told me today that her 74 year old mom walked the whole thing in 40 minutes. AWESOME. So yeah I'm also a slow walker.  But it's all good. I enjoyed the sights and sounds, zigzagging across a sea of pink and white and some very clever team names. This is a family blog so I won't illustrate. You'll just have to participate next year!

Keep it up y'all. You inspire me!