This time I was the tortoise...

Yesterday I ran in the GroveCrest Elementary 5k. When I woke up, it was snowing and there were 3" of snow on the ground. It was sooooo cold. When we got to the school, they took forever to start and standing around without moving enough made it even worse!

 

 Lance got 2 stress fractures in his leg a few weeks ago and was planning on taking this race a lot easier than originally planned. I assumed I would be leaving him behind and seeing him eventually at the finish line. Turns out that wasn't the case.

 

 About 1/2 way through the race my knees started having tendonitis issues. This only rarely happens to me. (We've been running more on the ellipticals lately because they work you more, and I think my knee got loose.) I had to run for a few, walk for a few. Eventually I had to mostly walk. I was pretty upset. I wanted to beat my last time, and instead did 4 min worse.

Lance did really well. He was able to run a lot of it without trouble from his leg. He passed me at about mile 2, and I didn't see him again until the finish line.

 

Here's me crossing the finish line. Drew filmed it. My Mom, Aria, Peggy, Kyle, Cory and Alecia all came to cheer us on - and as you can see, I got distracted right at the finish line by Aria's cute frozen face that I cut short! Oops! Took me a minute to realize they were all telling me I had to run through and turn in my number for my time. lol! When I see this, I notice my run is a little off because of my knees killing me.