BWC 5K

Today I ran in the Baltimore Women's Classic 5K in downtown Baltimore. It was a great day for a race! I finished 483 out of 2888 women with a time of 29:51 (9:38 mile pace). That's my best race yet!!! I'm so proud of myself. I ran it "alone." I look alone, right?!

I'm in there...can you find me? Where's Angie?! LOL

Ah! There I am.

I lined up with the 11-12 minute mile group which I assumed would be a good fit for me. I brought my MP3 player with me since I normally have someone running with me to chat with I thought it would help fill the "silence," but really I just zoned out and focused on passing people.
My AWESOME hubby joined me this morning (my equally AWESOME sister stayed at home with our kiddos). We joked that it felt like a "date." He volunteered and got to help out at water station #2 which worked out beautifully since it was by the start to the race (it was sort of like a figure 8 - big loop, with a small loop to the finish...I ran past water station 2 before crossing the start line, again, and looping around the water front to the finish).
Here we are hanging out at the water station before the race started...

How do you like my socks?! I bought them to wear to the NorthFace Endurance trail run the other weekend, but I had a wardrobe malfunction with the running skirt. I really like the cute little running skirt, what I don't like is the shorts that are attached to it. They bunch up and drive me crazy, so I recently found these Under Armor compression shorts that work beautifully under it - they keep the crappy attached ones in place and they don't ride up anymore. I picked up my race packet yesterday and when I saw the neon green shirt I knew what my race outfit would be! I was super excited to be able to wear the socks. I liked them!

At the end of the race they gave me a rose, a beautiful yellow rose that Katelynn immediately claimed, and an awesome towel that was soaked in cold water - it was total bliss! I draped that over my neck and didn't remove it until we got in the truck. It was so nice - better then any medal!!
Chris walked down to the finish line with me and took a picture.

Then we walked back along the little loop at the end and took some photos - it was a great view to end the race with!!!

I'm a dork! "Chris, take a picture of me 'running' the race!" LOL Ah, good times.

It really was a beautiful day and a great race. I hope all my races this summer go as smoothly; shame my favorite volunteer won't be able to make any of the other ones.