Moonlight Run

I am SO remisce! I should have posted long before this, I apologise to everyone who has been wondering. In my defence I have been busy with typesetting the past few weeks and so my computer time has been taken up with that (but all done as of last night, yay!).

Anyway, the Moonlight run was a BLAST! I absolutely loved it! A few days before I was worried, because it started snowing and they were forecasting more. Being pregnant, I was worried about slipperiness on the hill in particular. But, although it was cold and there was snow, the route was perfect and the hill even better! A few icy spots on the trails, but not very icy, and easy to navigate even in the dark.

If you are interested in checking out the results, you can go to here

Anyway, my personal results are...for the 6K...

I came in 329 out of ALL 6K participants (out of 1274), 139 (I jumped up, on Sunday it was 140!) out of 829 women and in my category (women aged 30-34) 10th place out of 72. I think I did pretty well, and even better, I had a LOT of fun. I can hardly wait to do another race. I even ran up most of the hill, I would have run up all of it, but I didn't want my heart rate getting too high. I also didn't push it as hard as I could have, since baby would complain later (trust me, that has happened!)It's nice to know I could have have had a chance at a higher placing if I was intent on winning a prize, but I am thrilled with how I did anyway. My time was 39:57:26. As a few of us were coming around the corner to the finish line the announcer said we had ten seconds to make it under 40 minutes for the 6K so I picked it up to get in under that. Oh it was so exhilarating. I highly recommend participating in a Run/Walk. Next goal, 10K or maybe 8K whichever opportunity comes next and eventually a half marathon and a marathon. It's so awesome running, I just love it.

On Saturday I will be 13 weeks pregnant. Things are going great and I am looking forward to meeting this baby!