my first race!

karis was trying to put together a group of us to do the mesa turkey trot for thanksgiving.  i am SO not a runner, but i am training to run a ragnar relay race in april.  my training right now is pretty low key, so i didn't know if i would be ready for a 10k run (6.2 miles).  the week before thanksgiving i decided i would run for an hour and see how i did.  so i ran for an hour straight w/o stopping and ran 5.5 miles.  i know that is super slow, but remember i'm not a runner.  i needed to pace myself.  since i didn't die i decided to do the race.  it was so much fun!  i loved the energy of everyone running at the same time.  i set a goal to run it in under an hour and 5 min and i came in at 1:03!  yeahhh me!  so much fun can't wait for turkey trot 2013 :).

right before the race