The weather was a little chilly, but nice and sunny, unlike the horrible storm that we'd had the night before. The non-closed-course race was primarily on the sidewalks or bike paths, but there was little to no traffic so that was ok. We did have to run through the muck to get to the finish line on the intramural field, though!
I ran with my 15 month old daughter, Mattie, and my friends Beth (who wore the shirt last weekend in DC) and Lauren (who will wear the shirt later on in Maryland). Lauren's husband Marc ran the 5K while pushing their daughter, Sophia, and still won his age group!
Me, Mattie, Beth, Lauren, and Sophia
We started out next to the intramural fields and headed to Perimeter Road. Clemson's located in the foothills of SC, so the campus is pretty hilly. I pushed Mattie for a little over the first mile (one small uphill and two larger ones), and then Lauren took over for me (THANK YOU!!!). I continued running for a while longer, and then I had to start the walk-really-really-fast-then-run thing for the next mile over several more hills. I did run more than I walked, though :)
Cherry Road is almost ALL uphill - there are two short slightly level stretches. The water stop was a little past the 2 mile mark, and I caught back up with Lauren and Beth (who'd taken over the stroller - thanks again!) shortly after that. From that point on, it was all running. Of course, the fact that it was mostly level or down hill from there made it a little bit easier! I took back over pushing the stroller around the 4K mark - I couldn't let Mattie finish with a better time than me :)
Even with pushing Mattie approximately half of the race and doing the walk/run thing, my official time was 37:00, which was an 11:55 pace. That's a LOT better than I thought I'd do given the circumstances! Beth's already talked me into doing another 5K and a 4 mile mud run in May - I'd forgotten how much I love to run!
Almost there!
Whoo hoo! We did it!
My "official" shirt with race bib pic (please ignore the "body by baby")
5 comments:
Great job on the run! Love the pictures!
congrats on the run, but I think mattie still beat you by a tire length.
Great Job Jenny!!!! We'll be doing it again soon :-)
How fun! Great job.
Great job jenny! I know the hills around clemson are tough and that seems like a fun 5k. You should really give thought to running the 5 mile www.achearoundthelake.org race coming up in october. It's a run around lake lanier in northern greenville county & crosses over into NC for a bit. it's a beautiful race, and you'd have plenty of time to get ready for the distance.
Glad you enjoyed the race!
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