Midnight Stroll
Tonight, after work, instead of coming home and plopping my lazy butt on the couch, I hauled my lazy butt up the street to get some good ol' fashioned exercise.
Exercise, you ask? Who is this woman and what has she done with our Sportlady?
I know it seems a little out of character, but I couldn't resist the Country's Midnight Express, a 5K run here in the C-Town. At work tonight, Gretchen coerced Cory and I into doing the "race" with her.
I put "race" in quotation marks because there wasn't really any "racing" with us. More on that in a minute.
So after work, we hustled up the street to Country's for the big event. And it was seriously a very big event. I'd guess that there were about 3,000 people there. Gretchen's boyfriend Josh was also doing the race, but he was planning on running. Well, those of you that know me know that running isn't my thing. Nor is it Cory's idea of fun. So Cory, Gretchen, and I, along with her dog, Ella, decided we'd just walk the course.
Funny thing. I had to run back to the truck to get a bottle of water, and by the time I got back, we somehow missed the start of the race. We walked up to the start line, and everyone was already off. My watch said it was just 11:59. So much for the "midnight" express.
How far behind were we? We decided to jog until we at least caught up to the police car that was tailing the very last people. That's right. We were behind the police escort. oops.
Josh ran the 5K in 26 minutes. We finished in about 58 minutes. Not too impressive... but considering we finished the first mile at 20 minutes, we must have picked up the pace and finished strong. That's worth something, right?
Though we finished in front of quite a few people, they were already out of sandwiches and sweet tea by the time we got to the finish line. Missing the sandwich didn't bother me, since I don't really like the food at Country's. However, their sweet tea is divine.
I was pretty excited by the quality of the race T-shirt, though. It was really nice. A dark grey pocket-tee, and it's even embroidered on the front. Definitely the nicest race T-shirt I've ever gotten.
Tonight, after work, instead of coming home and plopping my lazy butt on the couch, I hauled my lazy butt up the street to get some good ol' fashioned exercise.
Exercise, you ask? Who is this woman and what has she done with our Sportlady?
I know it seems a little out of character, but I couldn't resist the Country's Midnight Express, a 5K run here in the C-Town. At work tonight, Gretchen coerced Cory and I into doing the "race" with her.
I put "race" in quotation marks because there wasn't really any "racing" with us. More on that in a minute.
So after work, we hustled up the street to Country's for the big event. And it was seriously a very big event. I'd guess that there were about 3,000 people there. Gretchen's boyfriend Josh was also doing the race, but he was planning on running. Well, those of you that know me know that running isn't my thing. Nor is it Cory's idea of fun. So Cory, Gretchen, and I, along with her dog, Ella, decided we'd just walk the course.
Funny thing. I had to run back to the truck to get a bottle of water, and by the time I got back, we somehow missed the start of the race. We walked up to the start line, and everyone was already off. My watch said it was just 11:59. So much for the "midnight" express.
How far behind were we? We decided to jog until we at least caught up to the police car that was tailing the very last people. That's right. We were behind the police escort. oops.
Josh ran the 5K in 26 minutes. We finished in about 58 minutes. Not too impressive... but considering we finished the first mile at 20 minutes, we must have picked up the pace and finished strong. That's worth something, right?
Though we finished in front of quite a few people, they were already out of sandwiches and sweet tea by the time we got to the finish line. Missing the sandwich didn't bother me, since I don't really like the food at Country's. However, their sweet tea is divine.
I was pretty excited by the quality of the race T-shirt, though. It was really nice. A dark grey pocket-tee, and it's even embroidered on the front. Definitely the nicest race T-shirt I've ever gotten.
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