We had a GREAT time at the Downtown Dash this year. It was funny since we didn't lay our clothes out the night before, and we assumed our phones would wake us including daylight savings time, but it turns out that it woke us at 0600 according to the pre-Daylight Savings time, so we woke up at 0700 instead. The race was to begin at 0830.
We got dressed and hit the ATM, parked on Wilson. We hustled over to registration, picked up our numbers and T-shirts, then headed back to the car. After dumping our goodies and pinning on our timing plates, we headed to the starting line. We didn't wait longer than 6 minutes of stretching with the Radio Disney dancers, and the race was off!
The amazing thing was that we ran the entire time and a fairly steady pace, stopping twice for water. I LOVE supported events like this that bring athletes of all levels of experience together. I love running in a massive pack and this event hosted over 1000 runners ages 1-99. I placed 19th out of 64 females in my age division, 448th overall!
There was also a big band stationed near the old post office. We got to hear them twice, both coming and going. It was also a great idea to have a two-sided water stop at the turnaround somewhere around the two mile marker. All the volunteers were cheering us through the race, which was so sweet! And one guy was watching us while eating a huge ice cream cone just outside the Americana, that was hilarious!
Our co-finishers were a family: five kids under the age of 12 and the mom was wearing two leis, one with purple flowers and one with green. All the kids had some element of green in their running outfits. Even though the kids were always stopping and starting abruptly, they were cute! To help us across the finish line, one little guy jumped out of his stroller to sprint the last 0.2 mile. Awesome.
The view from my handlebars... A glimpse into the mind of a working mom.
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