What?!? A 10K NEXT Saturday?

Last Friday, my friend Bethany got the wild idea that we should run a 10k in Kilgore on Halloween.


That's right.


A week before the race.

Had we run?

Oh maybe for a few minutes before we decided to stop & walk the rest so we could talk more. ;) But, we had CERTAINLY not trained. A few months ago I was running 3 miles at a time - but that was a few months ago. 10k is 6.2 miles. The last time I did that was when I ran a half marathon in 2005! But, I figured, what can it hurt? (Turns out, it could hurt my knee...see pics below!) If worse came to worse, we would just walk. So, on Halloween, I got up before the sun did, picked Bethany up, and we headed to Kilgore. The race wove through the streets of downtown. There were less than 100 people there racing - but we had lots of fun...RUNNING! Yes! We ran the whole thing! We were pretty pround of ourselves (or at least I was!).

My parents were in town, so they came with David & Kate (so did Bethany's husband, little boy & mom) to cheer us on at the end. It was a good sight to see when we came around the corner & could see them & realized we were almost finished!

Kate w/ my mom & Jackson

My parents with Kate

Our moms ready to cheer us on!

There we are!! WAY in the back!

Me with my injury... There were these huge cracks in the streets & I caught one an fell. My hands hurt the worst at the time. Bethany was such an encouragement though. She said "Don't worry. It's just a good distraction to not think about how much the running hurts." HA!

Thanks for the fun idea Bethany! We ended up having lots of fun & I am glad we did it. Maybe next weekend we'll go ahead and just find a half-marathon to do. Then, a full the next. Why not, right? It's all mental anywa.y ;)