Mackland Mile...

...Fourth of July morning, I drove over to Sarah's house and we headed to her first ever running race, the Macklind Mile. She was nervous and the fact that we'd thought we'd lost the car key, didn't help at all. She called her hubs and left him a VM telling him she'd lost her key and we might need him to come get us after the race. Luckily, right when the race started, it fell out of her pants!!! We called him after the race to let him know that we'd found the key and he hadn't even gotten the VM-how funny is that!!!

Okay, so back to the race...we rocked it! Sarah ran this thing with a STRESS FRACTURE, a stress fracture people!?! Can you believe that??? I passed on my running wisdom of the "Leap Frog" approach where you run to a certain point then walk to a certain point etc, etc, etc...I picked the first couple points then I told Sarah she needed to pick since she knew her body best. After the 3/4 mile mark, I pointed to a stop sign and I told her, when we get there, we give it all we have...no holding back! I also pointed out a lady in white spandex shorts and told her our goal was to catch her because I mean, seriously, who wears white spandex shorts???

We did catch the lady in white spandex shorts and when we passed the clock time it said 12:30. Sarah's goal was under 15 minutes so she was pretty happy. The official time was 11:59!!!

Here we are at the finish line: After the race, we each got a Bloody Mary (one of the bars was giving them away to runners, one of the benefits of running races=free stuff!) and watched the elite runners. Seriously, these people were crazy fast...4 MINUTES people, the guys were running a mile in 4 minutes and some change and the fastest girl was 5 minutes!

It was a great race and a good way to start my Fourth of July! Awesome job Sarah and any time you want to do a race, call me!