Fourteen Miles
26 Oct 2011 Leave a Comment
On October 16th I went on a journey with my best friend in the whole world. I woke up really early and picked her up at 6 in the morning! We drove to Temecula, which is about 40 minutes from her house and joined TONS of people to fun a 5K. We also met another friend of ours there as well.
We picked up our T-Shirts and our scarves from the Ford booth. In the picture below I am wearing last year’s scarf around my head. One of the booths had whoopee cushions; my kids loved that LOL….
This is us before we ran the 5K: From the left, Monica, Mary and Me.
At 8 AM Pacific Time the run started. Monica and Mary left me in the dust, I didn’t train as much as they did, but I made it through with one of my best times ever in a 5K, 44 minutes and 38 seconds. One thing to note if you throw up during a run, it’s a good thing. I think I pushed myself a little too hard, all through the run, each time I wanted to stop I kept thinking of my sweet Grandma, who passed away in August. She fought cancer for almost 4 years, chemo treatments were harder then this run, her pain was worse then this pain, and so on. So I just kept pushing myself for her and others like her.
This is us after the run… Our faces are really red!!
At 9 AM Pacific time the walk started… There were so many people this time around, it was like herding cattle. Many of us were mooing 
We didn’t casually stroll our way through it though, we had a good walk. Look at the picture out below, there were so many people on the walk… We had music playing on Mary’s iPod and we sang as we walked and really enjoyed the our time spent with all of the people below who have been touched by cancer.
That’s a lot of people!!
After our second 5K it’s was from for the real journey. My best friend Mary is training for the Susan G. Komen 3 Day in November. She lost her mom to Breast Cancer when we were in the 8th grade so she has done a lot of these walks and runs. This is her 3rd 3 Day. We did a little bit of training with her. We walked up to a restaurant and ate lunch and then walked back to where our cars were parked for a grand total of 14 miles in one day. It was a wonderful day of laughs and talks, remembering those we’d lost to cancer. Monica lost her Grandma the same month I lost mine to cancer.
After I got home and showered I let my daughters go through my goodies. They kept trying to trick their Dad and me into sitting on the whoopee cushion. I can’t wait to do it all again next yet. Plus in 2013 I am going to walk in the 3 Day!
