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Our first race

Posted on November 23, 2006September 2, 2018 by Sandra

My friend Stacy told us she would be in Orlando for Thanksgiving. She lives out in Dallas. We were trying to figure out a way to see each other over such a busy weekend. She runs marathons, so she invited us to join her in the Orlando Turkey Trot 5k. I was up for the challenge! I asked Chris and he was up for it, too! We have a few walk routes, one being our “long” route. It takes us just under an hour to walk it. We clocked it and it turns out it is exactly 5k.

I was really nervous about the race. We have been practicing, but I didn’t know how it would be with people everywhere and my nerves. So I didn’t sleep very well. But I woke up excited, got dressed warmly and off we went. It was 48 degrees, so we layered up. I did learn I need to own more Dry-Fit stuff if we are going to keep doing this. My cotton clothes were soaked when we finished!

Here we are pre-race:

My inspiration, Stacy:

What a rush and inspiration this race was! I wanted to keep running and running! I think I was feeding off the other runners. As I got passed, I would think “I need to start running again – I have been walking for too long now.” But Chris was too tired, so I decided to stay with him. But now that I have done this race, I will try another. I might even try it on my own just to see what best time I could do.

Here we are all red faced right after the race (our time: 45:10, not bad!):

Another post race shot with bananas, Gatorade and my favorite bagels from Einstein’s:

When can we do it again?

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