I love to run a race on Thanksgiving morning. It allows me to justify stuffing my face later in the day. Sure, I could just go for a run, but it's much more fun to get yourself out the door at the crack of dawn to run down the street in the cold with several hundred (sometimes thousand) other crazy runner-types. Since I started running in high school, I've run a Turket Trot almost every year. It started out with my high school's yearly Turkey Trot, which I came back and ran when I was running in college and had a winning streak that was 6-years-long. Then we moved to Connecticut and I ran the Manchester Road Race, which is huge, and awesome, with 8000 or so runners (Eight thousand! Yipe!). Needless to say, I did not win that one.
This year, I found a race north of Charlottesville, and they had a free kids' 1/2 mile run. So Harmony got to run her first race! And she had a great time. She kept telling me how fast she was. (and she was!) So cute!
My race started after the kids races and was actually quite nice: rolling hills on wooded country roads. There were nearly 300 people in the race, so I had lots of company. I started out fairly near the front of the pack and was passed by a few women along the course, but I felt good about the run. I'm sure if I actually did some speed work or ran more than twice a week, I could run a lot faster, but that's just not my life right now (side note: Phoenix half marathon is getting closer and closer, and considering the limited amount of training I've been able to do recently, it could really be a mess!). I finished 5th overall female in 20:41, a 6:28/mile pace (according to the results). I think that I will definately do this race again, and I'm already excited for the day when Sierra will get excited about running a kids' race!
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