Kim’s Fitness Through Dressage

Wild Woman September 22, 2007

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This morning we packed up the kids at 6am and headed down to Eatonville for NW Trek’s 9th Annual Run Wild. When we arrived, I checked in. One of the volunteers handed me my bag, and I casually asked if it would be okay if I ran the 8k course instead of the 5k course. She kind of giggled and said that would be okay if I didn’t mind people yelling at me that I was going the wrong way. 5k folks had red numbers, and the 8k folks had black numbers. So, I registered again, this time for the 8k. Now I had two bib numbers, depending on what I felt like running.

I decided to run the 8k, and it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought! I expected to have to stop at the end, but I really didn’t think twice about it. I didn’t push it, just treated it like a training run. The only hiccup was I tried to stop for a water break and nearly choked.

Jeff and the girls did the 5K walk and it was really cool to pass them as I ran by (the 8k had an extra loop off the 5k course). I got lots of high-fives, hugs, and the keys to the car — it was obvious at that point that I would finish before them.

After the race was finished I saw Jeff and the girls finishing the last part of the course. So, I ran to catch up with them and ended up doing the last .2 miles of the course with them. Or rather, ran the last .2 miles with Veronica (”C’mon Mom, race ‘ya!”). I really enjoyed watching the girls cross the finish line!

My recorded time was 49:37 and I finished 98th. In my age group (30-39) I believe I finished 15th out of 22. Pretty respectible, I think! We even got to see some Moose…

We stayed for the prize drawings & the 50yd kid’s dash (Veronica wore my ForeRunner to track her exact time & calories burned), and we won a package of tickets to Seattle Underground, Space Needle, and The Duck Tour. The funny thing was we won it with the number from my 5k bib! Next year Veronica wants to run the 5k with me. She said, “Walking is boooooooooring.”