UW Parkside New Year's Eve 5K

Today was so fun! My New Years Eve travels took me to Chicago last night and on to Milwaukee for New Year’s Eve. So I thought it would be fun to find a NYE race to run somewhere, and what better place than Kenosha Wisconsin. Why… well it was the only place I could find that was actually having a race.

What was fun you ask… First of all I did not do all the necessary research for directions. I thought… How big can Kenosha be? How hard can this place be to find? Well let me tell ya…. It’s big and hard to find. So after getting really lost, running a couple of red lights and getting very lucky we finally found the race location. We jumped out of the car and as we approached the sign-up table they sent a messenger out to tell the starter to hold the race. How cool is that? So we slapped on our number and scurried out to the start line. No warm up, no stretching, I’m still amazed no-one hurt anything.

The other fun thing is that Stacy and my friend Kim joined me for the run. I didn’t expect either to run with me, but somehow conned them both into running. After all this training on my own it was nice to have some running partners. They funny thing is they both warned me that they were out of shape and hadn’t run in months and I would need to really hold back. When the starting gun sounded they were off at a near sprint. Our first mile was sub 8:30 and it was all them, not me. Thanks for the warning girls:)

Anyway, we all had great time, and every finisher received a 2006 calendar. Woo Hoo! Below is a picture of Stacy(left), Kim(right) & myself with our celebratory calendars!

3.2 miles/28:01/Avg 8:45