Peachtree Road Race

What a fun race we had running the Peachtree. It's funny when you're a runner and people ask you if you've ever run the Peachtree and you say, "No". It is only the largest 10K in the WORLD. Yep, you read that right. . . the WORLD. . . . a whopping 60,000 people in this little shin-dig called a race :)

I finished in 52:00 on the nose. Makes me a little sick I didn't run just a second faster to be in the 51's. Oh well. I didn't do as well as I did on my last 10K, but this was a harder course, and it was much, much hotter. Out of 60,000 people I finished 4,665th. I'm pretty excited about that!!!! Jon's time was 49:36 and he finished 3224th overall.

And. . . to boot, we had a great crew of friends with us!

Jenn and Tripp. . . this was Jenn's 3rd year running it.


Angela and Doug . . . both newbies.

Ang and David. . . They've run this thing a good bit.

Steve and Faith. . . newbies too. Steve was so sweet to join Faith. I know it meant so much to her.

Me and my love. . .

Jenn S. and Becky

The whole group before the race.

Saw this shirt and LOVED it!!!! That's how I like my hashbrowns.

Okay. . . so here are some of my favorite things about the race. .

• Corral A-C had guards blocking the gate that were checking your race number to make sure you could be in these corrals. I was in corral B, Jon and Doug in A, and Angela H. in C. After walking through the gates I looked at Angela H and said, "Man, I feel pretty special."


• This wasn't a favorite, but I was really embarrassed. I opened the door on a man in the port-a-potty. Mortified I tell you. . .totally mortified.


• I got one of the Moe's shirts they were throwing out. It actually looks better than the Peachtree shirts. I gave it to Jon. He'll wear it much more than I will.


• The ice cold towels after we ran.


• Going to Trader Joes while waiting on the rest of our crew to finish.


• Sitting around, hanging out, and goofing off while waiting on our friends.


• Matching my sweet friends with our tie-dyed shirts.


• Going to the Expo with Ang and David and eating Varsity.


• Going to the Missing Person tent and telling them, "I think I'm missing. My friends said to meet them under the "H". Where's the H?


• Laughing. . . cause I always love me some laughing!
  

Here's Piedmont Park after we finished the race.

Doug and David

Angela L, Jenn S, and Jenn B.

Becky and Ang. L

Jon and Ang. H.

More hanging out and goofing off.

Congratulating Tripp on finishing.

Jenn being such a sweet and supportive wife. See her cold towel on his neck? We all wore our red hats. . . I just love these girls so much!

Our crew after the race. . .