First 8K!

I ran my very first 8K this morning with Tabitha!!! It was a fantastic race - plenty (I mean TONS) of food. They had coconut water, oranges, bananas, Panera bagels, water, crackers, breads, Smoothie King smoothies, granola bars - all FREE! There were a ton of volunteers and plenty of water stations. Every mile was marked with a great big sign. The only cheesy thing about the whole race was at the end they gave you a Hawaiian lei - that was a bit weird. Other wise it was all good.
Tabitha and I took a photo together before leaving her house, but I don't have that one right now, so here is just me.

This was another small race though (I'm sure they'll have a ton of food left over) - only 140 people total running the 8K. We started off towards the middle of the pack and at a pretty decent pace. When we hit mile marker one a volunteer yelled, "8:18." What?! Holy cow!! We instantly slowed down. No way we could do the whole thing if we kept that up. I was pretty impressed though because we were just doing a normal pace. There were 2 MAJOR hills on this course. We ran up about halfway and then walked (I was huffing and puffing just walking them). Serious hills. It was fairly hot (around 80's) and humid today too.
Our goal was to finish under 60 minutes. We thought that sounded good with being our first 8K and really only our second time running that far. We finished 75th and 76th (I was 76th) out of 140 people with my time being 51:25 (a 10:25 minute pace).
I am SO proud of myself!!! It was a really good run for us. The kids stayed with Tabitha's husband and kids at her house and had a great time, so it was an all around good morning for my family.