On Saturday morning, my last day of being in my 20's, Desma and I ran a 5K. We've been slowly working our way up to it since this fall. Nathan had me fooled too...I didn't know they had planned such a grand finishline party for us. I told him before hand, "well, if the kids are doing ok and you feel like it, maybe you could come and take a picture of us?" Well, Nathan, Barry and all the kids were there cheering us on when we came around the bend for the last tenth of a kilometer. The toilet paper finishline was a cute effect.
5K equals 3.1 miles
Since it was Saturday morning, we didn't have our normal entourage of village kids returning from school and joining us. We usually run in the afternoons. It is kind of embarassing that the village kids can keep up with us, even as they are runing with their bookbags and wearing flipflops!
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You go girl! It makes my muscles hurt just thinking about running!
That's great! (a little anti-climatic compared to some of the guesses though!!)
I think if I ran 5k at this point in my life I'd also need tp at the finish line, but for other reasons...
Proud of you!
Yay! I am very impressed! I can't even run a mile! You have almost inspired me to start running. Maybe if I had someone to run with....hmmmm. Anyway, congrats! It looks like you had a blast!
Way to go! And we don't even see any sweat!!
Our legs would not even move here. It was 5 degrees this morning.
Yeah for great achievements. It looks like I have got my work cut out for me. You don't even look winded. I don't think I can keep up!!
Do you have more pics?
Thanks for all the comments! I feel loved and affirmed. And, I will be looking for running buddies when we get back to the US...but probably not to do a 5K all the time or anything. Yes, I do have more pics, and I'll try to post them but the connection is so slow here. Love you all -- Laurel
Awesome! Looking forward to racing you when you get home :) Okay maybe not quite but that's pretty amazing!
You've inspired Chad to run again...maybe when it's not 18 degrees out :)
Love-----Christina
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