Running My First 10K

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I ran my first 10K yesterday. Tiffani came to visit me kind of last minute, and ran it with me, yay!! It was her first 10K also, and it was awesome to run it together. I had a goal of running it in under an hour, and I was able to meet my goal! I ran it in an even 55 minutes, averaging 8.6 minutes per mile. I ended up placing 4th in my age group. (That's probably just because there wasn't as big a turnout as there usually is though.) Tiffani says she was a rock star and ran it in 57:58 minutes, averaging a 9 minute mile. We both were so happy about our times. My awesome friend Ada and her husband (along with a bunch of great people in my ward) also ran the race. Ada skunked us both with less than 53 minutes. I don't remember her exact time. Nick was really nice and watched our kids, plus Tiffani's kids, plus Ada's kids while we ran the race. He had 10 kids at our house. When I called him to see how he was doing he said he had only lost two kids, so things were great. Thankfully he actually managed all of them really well, and I owe him big.





Tiffani and I in the car on our way to the race.

We had to use the port-a-potty just before we ran. We didn't want any accidents! They were horribly smelly.




Ada and I before the race.




Tiffani and I before the race.




Getting excited!






Erin was taking our pictures for us and accidentally got our feet . I thought it was funny, and thought I would show our running feet before we ran.






This is my favorite picture.
I love running, and it was so fun to have a sister and good friends there running with me.




Comments

The Koenigs said…
man, Erin must be an awesome photographer! I love how she managed to capture the symbalism of how wonderful feet can be! haha ;o) my bad!
August 3, 2009 at 12:11 PM
Stacy Risenmay said…
Good for you!!! That's awesome. But I seriously don't understand your love of running. I must be doing it wrong...
August 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Rusty said…
What Laurel didn't say was that she was ahead of all of us the whole race! (just until the last mile...)

So if it had been a 5 mile race, she would have WON!!!
August 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM
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