Saturday morning date

Tim and I got up early and ran in the St. Stephen's Episcopal School Falcon Fitness 5K on Saturday morning. We both had to work later in the day, but we're crazy and went anyway. It was an unusually chilly Florida morning - it was 34 degrees when we woke up and only about 45 when the race began. Most of the course was sunny, and there wasn't much wind, but I'm used to running in much more humid and warm air, so it was a bit of a shock. The course was gorgeous - lots of beautiful homes (I found one I am convinced we need to buy) and a long stretch along the Manatee River.

It was Tim's first race - he finished in 23:40 and has decided to become a professional runner. I improved my October 5K time (of 33:34) but had hoped to break 30 minutes - I finished in 30:19. This race had lots of age divisions, and Tim was overly excited that at 40, he was in the Masters division. I was merely in the 25-29 division, and considering every in my age group as well as most people not in my age group passed me, I wasn't too confident in placing in my age group. (We're talking 70-year-old men, 8-year-old girls, pretty much 200 of the 300 or so runners finishing ahead of me. But whatever. I never claimed to be a runner, and I'm just glad I finished.)

We also got good post-race food - parfaits, fruit, bagels, etc. - and a cool T-shirt and loaded goody bag for registering. I might have to share the contents of the goody bag at a later date.

Here we are after finishing the race: