One Mile Glow Run Recap

don't the boys look thrilled?

I mentioned yesterday that Saturday was another two race day. The evening race was a lot easier than last Saturday's cross country 5k, though. This race was another glow run ( I did one in April), but that was a 5k race. This race had a 5k option, but I figured the 1 mile race would be more fun for the kiddos. Plus I haven't done a 1 mile race yet.

all blinged up

This race was further away than I originally thought, so we probably won't do it again, but we did have a good time. Sunshine ran most of the race and did a great job. I pushed the boys and ran most of it as well. I think there was one hill that we stopped and walked up, but we ran the rest of it. This was the first race where I've pushed both boys in the jogger.

As I rounded the final curve into the finish line with more energy than normal at the end I realized I haven't run a 1 mile race since I was on the high school track team in 9th grade. I only ran track in 9th grade because I couldn't handle the repetition of the 1 mile and 2 mile races, which were the only events I ran. I'm not a sprinter so I got the longer, very repetitive races.

In any case, I had fun running a race that was shorter than what I usually run. There's a couple local 1 mile road races that are on Sundays, but I'm going to keep looking to see if I can find one that's on a Saturday. If so, I want to run it without any kiddos so I can see how fast I can go.

This was just a fun run and I forgot to start my Garmin, but they did have a clock running. Though now that I think of it, the 5k race started 5 or 6 minutes before the 1 mile race, so the timer must have been running off the 5k start, not the 1 mile start. Which makes the clock time make more sense. 16:38 is awfully slow for a 1 mile race that I actually ran most of. I'm not sure of the exact time difference between starts, so I'll say it was 5 minutes, which makes our finish time 11:38. If it was a 6 minute difference, than the finish time was 10:38. Either time is possible.

14th race in 2016

Month	Event	Time
January	New Year’s Day 5k	33:01
February	Frostbite 5k	37:37
February	Mud Run	1:35:37
March	4k Walk	33:19
March	March 5k	33:49
March	Pi Day Virtual 5k	1:01:30
March	Obstacle Race	44:06
April	Glow Run	35:16
April	April 5k	41:15
April	Evening Run	34:59
May	May 5k	35:18
May	Evening Cross Country Race	43:17
June	June 5k	39:21
June	1 Mile Glow Run	11:38

26th race towards my 40 by 40 goal

	Date	Event	Distance	Event Type
1.	July 2015	4th of July 5k	5k	Pregnant
2.	August	4 Mile Fun Run	4 miles	Road Race
3.	September	All Terrain	5k	Mixed surface
4.	October	Hill Valley Half	13.1 miles	Virtual half marathon
5.	October	Corn Maze 5k	5k	Corn Maze
6.	October	Kilted Trail 5k	5k	Kilted race
7.	November	Trail Half	13.6 miles	Trail Half
8.	November	Turkey Trot	5k	Road Race
9.	December	Veteran’s 5k	5k	Mixed surface
10.	December	Army Virtual Marathon	26.23 miles	Virtual marathon
11.	January 2016	New Year’s Day 5k	5k	Road race
12.	February	Frostbite 5k	5k	Cross country race
13.	February	Mud Run	4.8 miles	Mud run
14.	March	4k Walk	4k	Walk
15.	March	March 5k	5k	Road race
16.	March	Pi Day Virtual 5k	5k	Virtual 5k Walk
17.	March	10 mile race	Not applicable	Water stop volunteer
18.	March	Obstacle Race	5k	Obstacle run
19.	April	Glow Run	5k	Glow Run, 1st of 2 races in 12 hours
20.	April	April 5k	5k	Pushing jogger, 2nd of 2 races in 12 hours
21.	April	Evening Run	5k	Evening run
22.	May	10k Kayak Race	10k	Kayak race
23.	May	May 5k	5k	1st of 2 races in same day
24.	May	Evening CC Race	5k	Evening cross country, 2nd of 2 races in same day
25.	June	June 5k	5k	Pushing jogger, 1st of 2 races in same day
26.	June	1 Mile Glow Run	1 mile	Pushing jogger with both boys, 2nd of 2 races in same day, glow run