It's Tuesday and I'm finally getting the chance to sit down and tell about my Iwannarunna5K from Saturday. It turned out to be an absolutely beautiful morning for my ladies to run their very first 5K! After running all week in the rain it was a very welcome sight for all! Nine weeks ago when we started this training we had 18 ladies show up. I had no idea what would happen in the next 9 weeks, I just kept hoping that at least one or two would make it to the end and that hopefully one person would want to continue on with a running program when they reached this goal. Saturday morning I had 13 ladies show up ready to conquer something they never thought they could achieve! Race time was 6:30 sharp! All of them were lined up and ready to go. I didn't have a cool gun or blow horn or even a whistle to start them off so it was just a good ole, On your mark, Get set, Go! They were off! I didn't run with them (the blog made me put a time in to publish this so I put the first gal's time in) but I jumped on a cute orange bike and went back and forth with them till the water stop at the turn around point. There I stopped and handed out water to all of them and then hopped back on the bike to get to the finish line before any of them showed up. I had nice little 5K medals there to put over each of their heads as they crossed the finish line! It was so fun to see their faces and watch the joy (and pain) as they accomplished their goal! the first one across the line was 34:57 and the last ones were 44:59. Every one of them pushed themselves more than they thought possible! And every one of them wants to carry on! They made plans afterwards to keep meeting together and encouraging each other on! I told them I will show up here and there but it was totally up to them to keep themselves going! We had all brought yummies for after the race and each of us brought a prize for a drawing. They had all gone together to give me a nice night out with Tom for dinner and a movie. So thoughtful of them! 
  
After I left them I went to get my own 5k in. Later that day was the Weight Watcher's Walk It Challenge in Lehi so I continued my running service day there. I am a receptionist at WW in Provo and really love my job! There was a fabulous turnout there on a beautiful trail on a beautiful day! Many of them were probably wishing the day would have been a bit cooler or overcast. I am very impressed with everyone who took the WW challenge! I was the sweeper on this race so I ran to the one mile point and cheered as people went both ways until the final people when past. Then I ran the rest of the way and went back and forth behind the two final ladies as they made their way to the end. One of them used a walker to do this whole 5K. I ended up with 5 miles on this since I had to keep going back and forth. Over all it was a wonderful day of watching and helping people do something very big in their lives! It was all very inspirational!
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