A Colorful Run

My first 5k is on October 5th. I'll be running and walking with Steve and the boys in memory of a co-worker of Steve's that passed away from brain cancer. She was in her 20s and it was diagnosed only three months before she passed. To say it was unexpected would be an understatement. When we do this first 5k, I'll be treating it like a training day. It's next Saturday (not this coming Saturday, but a week from this Saturday).

My first "REAL" 5k will be on October 19th. It's a local Color Run (not THE Color Run, but close). I'll be running it with Lesley, Leigh Anne, Jo, Stacey, Jackie, and Heather (I think). We are all running at different levels (I am the slowest) but it should be a fun run to do together. You don't really do this one in any serious way because they throw stuff at you while you run.

I think it'll be fun, but I'm not sure how it'll go. This is not the official Color Run, so I don't know if it'll be as good, or not. Either way, I'm sure we'll have a good time running together.

We get a t-shirt and a pair of sunglasses to wear while we run. 

We've been preparing for this first 5k and each time I run I'm questioning if I'll be ready for it or not. I pray that by October 19th, I'm ready and that three miles doesn't seem like an eternity to complete. 

Steve will be traveling starting next week (during my birthday) and will be gone next week and then the week before my Color Run. I had asked my dad if he wanted to come down for my birthday, so I wouldn't have to spend it alone, but he can't. He said he was planning on coming down to be here for my race!

He'll be here for my first 5k.

To cheer me on and watch me finish.

It seriously brought me to tears when he said he wanted to come down to be here to support me. I've been preparing myself for this first 5k and it just means a lot to know that he wants to be here to see me accomplish something that I've been training for and working really hard to do.

I can't run tonight because Steve will be at a dinner thing tonight and won't get home until later. I've asked if anyone wants to run tomorrow, and Lesley said tomorrow works better for her anyway because it's supposed to rain all day and all night tonight.

Tomorrow we'll be running and then I'm hoping to run on Saturday. Steve is gone next Monday and won't get home until late Wednesday, so the earliest that I can run next week is on Thursday. I might try Monday morning with Hugh... but I don't know-- I hate my single jogger and I need to get the tires inflated. Oy.

The good news is that I'm not sore anymore from Monday's exhausting run. I feel decent today and hopefully having the extra day off will make the run tomorrow even better.