IVF 5K

Today was the IVF 5k - Footsteps For Fertility - in Salt Lake and we had such a great time! We participated for our good friend (and co-worker) Taylor and his wife. We decided to make it a 2-day event and we stayed in a hotel on Friday night.

(Brianne, Erica, Pam, Rae and Cali - Chalysse was there too. She took the picture)

We walked (a mile) to Buca di Beppo from the hotel and 'carb loaded' just because we could. (We are fully aware that we were only running a 3.1 miles and didn't really need to eat a bunch of carbs in preparation, but we'll take any excuse). Plus, Buca is amazing and most of the girls hadn't eaten there before. And, we walked to and from the restaurant to help off-set all the deliciousness we ate.

Oh, and someone thought it would be funny to tell the waitress that it was my bachelorette party, so that was fun.

These girls are crazy.

We had a lot of fun hanging out, talking and laughing (a lot) till one or two in the morning. When our alarm went off at 6:15, it was so painful. I am much too old to stay up so late!

I love these ladies.

There were about 700 people who signed up for this race and since we are all at different fitness levels, we got split up pretty quickly. 

This was part of the course - 1 and 3/4 laps around the park. Liberty Park is beautiful and the weather was absolutely perfect.

I look awful - and super sweaty. This was toward the end of the race.

The finish line. Brianne was there to cheer me through the finish. She's so fast, she made really good time.

This cute girl and her cute mom also met me at the finish line. It made my whole week!

Mike wasn't able to make it to the race and we gave him a lot of crap about not supporting us. We know he would've come if he could have, but it's fun to mess with him.

We ran into this guy at the finish line and couldn't resist sending this picture to Mike telling him that he's been replaced. Plus, how cool is it that he's wearing a shirt with my name on it?!

Time-wise, I didn't do so great. I ran it in 38.something which is super slow, but it's a good place to start, right?

But, it's much faster than I could have run it 6 months ago. I'm excited to see where I am in 6 more months.

I really have the best team - including our amazing trainer who supported us from afar. It was so fun to accomplish something new, and support a great cause.

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When I got home, my neighbor across the street (who I may or may not have a little crush on) was in his driveway working on his motorcycle. He asked me when my 5k was because he's a runner and I told him about it last week. I told him that it was this morning and I was just getting home from it. He asked how I did and he said I did great when I told him my (super slow) time.

Then, he proceeded to tell me that he had run 16 miles this morning. He's training for a marathon.

Awesome. See you later! I just remembered that I have to be anywhere but here.

He probably ran 16 miles in the same amount of time I struggled through 3.

Oh well. It's good to have something to work toward, right?