My own personal cheering squad

I found a picture of what I saw near the finish line on Sunday's race day...:)

J, Simon, Curtis, his son Noah, some guy (??) and Jackie.

Thanks guys - you made my day....

40 minutes and 20 seconds

Yup, that's how long it took me to run 5 Km...and I only walked 2 minutes. The rest was all run - can you believe it? Slow and steady was my plan and it worked...I did it!

It was amazing. I had little Slip the iPod giving me tunes to run to and at the finish line - J and some friends surprised me with signs and loud crazy cheering - It was wonderful. After I finished we stayed and cheered on some others we knew doing the 10 KM run...it was a lot of fun. There were people of all ages and families participating in the walk/run events. There was a sense of fun and community and I really enjoyed it. I wasn't absolutely axhausted after and I'm really amazed at just how far I ran. I guess I can do things when I put myu mind to it...:) I'm quite happy with how it all went.
J tried to take pictures but they're kind of blurry, although there's apparently some shots of me warming up and of us cheering on our friends in the paper today, so I'm going to try and hunt it down to see it.

All that AND we went out for breakfast after.
Nifty.

What a wonderful experience...

Well now I've done it...

Know how I was saying I wanted to learn to jog this summer?
Well my home town is having a learn to jog, get in shape marathon on June 10, complete with training advice and planned out workouts to get you ready for it if you've never run before. You follow their learn to run plan and hopefully can complete the marathon. Plus all the proceeds go towards literacy programs in the city.

Sooooo...I've decided that I'm going to sign up for the 5Km walk/jog. Their limits for qualifying are "if you can breathe, you're in" - good enough for me! I'm very excited. I did my first workout this morning on the learn to jog plan and I'm still alive...5 minutes fast walk + 1 minute jog done 5 times..and I feel great! Maybe I'll be able to run the whole 5 K in June -maybe I won't. I won't beat myself up about it, BUT I'll try my very best, and I'll have a concrete goal to work towards to keep me focused.

This is exciting!