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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Cinco de Mayo 5K

Here we are the Cinco de Mayo 5K run in Irvine.  It was over by the Spectrum.  This will be my 2nd race.  I couldn't believe the group we gathered to do this.  Our little running entourage has gotten bigger and bigger. I'm so proud of all of us!
Can you believe my hubby ran with me? He had a little cold and still did it!  I'm so happy that he's participating in this with me!  But I do have to say since I know I won't be able to long that I beat him after falling, scuffing up my knees and spraining my ankle.  What can I say, it was wet by the water station.  This was probably at the 1 mile mark but for some reason, there is such an adrenalin rush that I walked it off a little bit an ran the rest to come home in 29 minutes and 11 seconds.  Beat my time from my 1st race and broke under 30 minutes!  Yippee!
My brother-in-law Alan joined us too!  He smoked all of us from the very beginning!  He doesn't even run on a regular basis.  Just a gym guy but I think he's pretty competitive!
Som, my new sis-in-law ran and walked it!  She is really not a runner at all but wanted to come out!  I wish more of you would!  You don't have to run it and we kind of all just go at our own pace and meet up at the beginning and end.  So much fun!  Thanks for all going guys!  There's more friends that went also but I don't have pictures of them.  Thanks to Cora the winner of it all out our group for getting all of us to do this one!  I didn't even know about it.  I'm on track to run one once a month!  But not too sure after spraining my ankle at this one!  It's pretty bruised up and hurts!

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