What up Ladies!
Saturday was “race” day…remember the air quotes around “running” on the last post? Well they were extremely appropriate. I would say I averaged 10 minutes of total run/jogging time on this trail. The rest would be better labeled as a power hike through the rolling hills of Danville, California.
We parked far away from the park and caught the shuttle the lovely folks at Brazen Racing provided for us. (No photo – fail) It took about 10 minutes to ride up the windy road to the race location. I sat next to a gal that was running the half-marathon; hope she did really well. It was super misty and chilly up at the top and it wasn’t your typical crush of people, which was nice.
Waiting for race start
This little one was so cute! He did the 5K and was like a jack rabbit…running then walking then running then walking. The funniest was when he would pass people he’d smile at them and say “Boo!”. I can say, with confidence since this was my second race with Brazen, you have the nicest people setting these races up and the sweetest people running these races. Everyone’s super chill and you can just start talking to random folks and potentially find your new race pal (Hi Belinda and hubby!).
We were the last group, as the 5K’ers so we said we were going to run until the first set of hills…well that was probably 4 of the 10 run time minutes. So you know what we were facing here’s a little photo montage (pardon the blurries, I was actually trying to race here 🙂 ).
On the trail…single file now
I’m running here!
Winding, winding, winding up up up
Like climbing Everest
New friend Belinda!
It’s all downhill from here!
The one thing we wanted was to not finish last…not to be jerks – but you know…we’re jerks. HA! Another thing was that we didn’t want the half-marathoners to finish before us either. So as we are heading down the hill for the last 0.5 miles of our 5K who do we see huffing it up the hill???? Dang HF’ers! Wholly Guacamole!!!! We were like, whu?!? These dudes were like zoned in – breathe was loud and their eyes were just blazing forward. We were in awe…like these 2 guys
We made sure to run around the last corner before crossing the finish line and picked up this Flavor Flav ready race bling!
Bling Bling
Flames and everything, right?!? So now that’s hanging up next to my tough Trail Hog medal from last month. It’s like a zoo in here! 🙂
Then we erased all the calories we just burned by pigging out at the post-race buffet. (Why did I not photo that again, Argh!) Smeared PB on half a bagel, grabbed some pineapple slices, a little cup of pretzel M&Ms AND the awesome cappucino It’s It ice cream sandwich! EEEEEEEEE!!!! That thing is so good!
If you’re in the Bay Area totally do the Brazen Racing series of local races. They are the best folks, both putting it on and participating in them. I’ve got a couple more through the end of the year…next one’s a 10K. Whee!
After the race LiLo and I headed to Downtown Danville for a street fair type of deal – food and crafter booths. (Of course no photos…although it’s more because my phone was ready to die on me but also because I forgot, DER). We stopped and ate a grilled chicken caesar wrap – so YUM. It also must have looked so Yum because we had 2 folks stop and ask us where we bought ours from.
Oh, I did get one photo. The kids were doing safe trick’or’treating at the fair and I saw this coolio kid…
I’m a Minecrafter
10yo totally wants to make a Minecraft costume this year so we’ve been saving boxes like mad fools (you don’t realize how hard these are to come by until you need them). So when I saw this kiddo walking by I had to ask his parents if I could snap a photo (and make sure they knew I wasn’t some perv skeeving out on their boy) so 10yo and I could use as a template. The mom said she bought both of the things on Amazon! Man, the things we spend money on now a days!
So that’s my weekend…and now it’s the week – so we’ll see how today goes. It’s starting off cold and rainy – so howdy do Fall!
See ya later!
Cathy
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