last saturday i ran in my first race ever! it was a 5 mile race down the shore at belmar. i ran with two of my friends and one of their families. we left the house at 4:15am in order to get a good parking spot for the 8:30am start. i have been training a little for the past month running around 3 to 4.5 miles as much as i could. some days were easier than others. in training i was running about a 10 minute mile (for those of you who know anything about running, especially since i'm an athlete i should be definitely running faster than that but for now i will take it!). so my two goals for the run was to run it in under an hour (but closer to 50 minutes) and to not walk at all and run the whole thing. well #935 did just that!! i ran the race in 49.54 minutes and i was able to run the whole thing! i was very happy when the race was over but it was a really fun day. my parents came out to support me and no one got hurt! the whole gang is thinking of maybe doing another one in august but we definitely decided we would do this all again next year....and make t shirts!
