Cocoa Run

Everyone knows that Mike loves to run. He has done a half marathon and goes running almost every day. Recently I started running too. I was really just doing it as part of my daily workout but Mike signed us up for a race in January. Then my dad found a 5K race in Charleston right before Christmas and I figured it would be a good warmup run. My dad and brother decided to run with Mike and I. The race was on December 20th and we woke up that morning to rain.

Pre race pictures :) Don't we all look so happy to be going out to run in the rain! (Mike is the only one who looks like he isn't happy) I felt pretty good that morning and I was excited to run except that before we left I banged my knee on the door frame so that wasn't fun.

It was raining while we were waiting for the race to start but it cleared up during the race which was awesome! The weather actually ended up being nice because it didn't rain but it was cloudy so it wasn't too cold either. After the race it started pouring though. Mike was able to get a nice picture of me finishing the race. I felt good coming in. My knee was hurting a bit but not so bad that I couldn't run and I felt like I could've kept going :)

I finished the race in 35 minutes and 10 seconds which I think is awesome for a first race and I really didn't practice as much as I should've before the race.

Joshua finished the race in 29th place overall and 4th in his age group with a time of 20 minutes and 40 seconds. Josh missed third place by 10 seconds :( but he still did a great job.  My dad finished in 29 minutes and 35 seconds :)

Mike finished 23rd overall and 2nd place in his age group.  His time was 20 minutes and 16 seconds.

I think everyone did a great job! It was a fun race. I was surprised at how much running with other people helped to keep me going and the music helped too.

Congratulations everyone!