It all started back in the fall over a casual conversation with my friend Amy at work. We started talking about maybe doing a REAL race. The big event in this area is
Ottawa Race Weekend with a 5 & 10K on Saturday and a full and half Marathon on Sunday. About fifteen minutes after our conversation Amy came back waving a piece of paper in my face, it was her registration for the Race Weekend 10K. So I rose up to the occasion and registered right away. Good thing we did because the 10K sold out by January/February this year!
I have NEVER done anything like this, anything this BIG. Yes the last three years I've done the Run For the Cure 5K (and I will do it as long as I physically can as its an important cause to me), but it is a unofficially, untimed charity run. Race Weekend is so big it brings 25 million dollars in revenue to the city of Ottawa! Three years ago I would of never of imagined/pictured/thought about taking part in Ottawa's biggest 10K race of the year! Here I am, 3 years later, 63 lbs lighter, and I AM a RUNNER!
I won't be setting any records this weekend, nor do I think I ever will set a record. I'm aiming for a 75-70 minute finish time but really I'm just aiming to enjoy the experience and finish with a smile on my face, and maybe a tear in my eye.
Amy, thank you for pushing me! Can't wait for our 1/2 marathon challenge this fall... guess we should get registered right?
2 comments:
Good luck with the next race! I'm sure you will be just as successful as you were with this one. :)
My next challenge is to do a 10k race, just don't know which and when yet lol.
I can't believe I've actually done it, but I joined the ballot for the 2012 London Marathon when it opened! I only have about a 1 in 7 chance of getting a place, but am slowly working on increasing my distance in the event that something crazy happens and I do get a place!
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