Mercer Island 5K for Colon Cancer

On Sunday March 22nd - I Walked/Ran a 5K for Colon Cancer in Mercer Island. I am gettin better at keeping up the pace, and while I did not beat my time from the week before I was still only a few seconds over an hour.

I even ran down a long hill - I just kept telling myself that if I can just make it to the bottom of the hill I can walk for awhile. The start of the race was very very full of people and hard to get a good pace started but once i was able to break away from the pack i set a pretty good pace and i checked around for some one in the group to try and beat to the end and I did it.

Here are a few pictures that I am very proud of.

Finaghty's St Paddy's day 5K run

Yesterday I joined some great famliy friends in running/walking another 5K in Snoqualime Ridge. I have done a few 5K's in the last few months and most of them have been fairly flat with only a few hills. but the Finaghty's St Paddy's day run was very very hilly-

Before the race started -

After the Race - with a cocco at Starbucks

There were 5 of us that started out together - 2 were going to run the whole thing the rest of us were going to walk/run the course, the first hill was about 100 yards into the course and I thought to myself "Oh MY HECK" what did I get myself into. It was also pouring down rain and freezing cold....

The Sag wagon was collecting the cones as I passwd them - someday I will not be the last one to cross the line.Yes I even ran the last little bit

I was very last to cross the finsih line BUT - I did it my time was 1 hour and 20 seconds - The time on the clock was 1 hour and 45 seconds but my chip time was 1 hour and 20 seconds... Yahoo I am glad I did this and finished