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Wounded Warrior 2014

October 9, 2014 by Life is a Run · Leave a Comment

Ok, so if you saw yesterday’s post you might be thinking, huh?! Well, we migrated over to our own self-hosted site quite awhile ago, but we still get so many inquires about Advocare over on our old site we thought we’d make it abundantly clear over there we are operating over HERE!

And now we shall take you back into time to four months ago! 🙂 Sorry for all life flashbacks, but we want to keep a record here of our races and what not so back to June when Beth was still pregnant……

For the past three years I have run the Wounded Warrior 10K each June and really love this race even though usually it is super toasty outside. We are talking about June in Texas here. But I didn’t want to miss out on running Wounded Warrior for my fourth year in a row although I’m pretty sure no one would have minded if I said I’m pregnant I’m out this year.

why yes I did take a pre race care selfie 🙂

We actually had a WAY cooler summer this year so I was hoping for some great race day weather! As it turns out it actually was raining that morning and the race was delayed due to lightning and so by the time we did all get out there to run it sure was humid. I was going to take it easier out there and do lots of listening to my body. About 1.5 miles in I had some round ligament pain and had to stop to walk. Of course I had lots of people around me checking on me to make sure I was ok. Such sweet people!

Luckily, my friend, Cassie, out there let me tag-a-long with her on the course and we did a nice run/walk combo to get through the 10K. I’m so glad that I did still commit to running this race. The heat was my biggest fear about keeping up with running. This is probably the least exciting race recap, but if you made it through this then THANKS!

And I shall leave you with this picture because it’s funny! 🙂

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Wounded Warrior

July 24, 2013 by Life is a Run · 5 Comments

Something crazy has been going on in Texas this summer and more specifically in Dallas as I can’t really speak for the rest of the state. 🙂 It’s called rain.

I was in top 500 or something like that so I also got a hat with my registration and every year they give you a pair of socks in addition to your race shirt.

I woke up race morning and this race really isn’t that far from my house though I was running behind and my fellow NTX Runners who were also running Wounded Warrior had planned a meet up for a pre-race picture. Just a few minutes behind I was making my way over to packet pickup and juust made it under the awning of the building when all of the water from the sky began to pour down. All of it. Luckily, I’d found some of my NTX people so I wasn’t just standing their by myself since Teal wasn’t able to run this race with me due to high school graduation where she works. We got a couple updates from a human being that the race was delayed 15 minutes and then another 15 minutes as there was just a massive crowd gathered together trying to stay dry.

For this race they have two distances, a half and a 10K, and per usual I was sticking with the 10K which started after the half did. It’s too darn hot to be doing a half in June, amiright? Except for this rainy race day. I also began tweeting with some other local runners who were hearing the delay was even longer than what I had heard. Eventually I knew I had 5-10 minutes before my race was to begin so I made my way to the start line in the rain. I’d already made the executive decision that I was not going to even begin to mess with my phone and Runkeeper for this race. The life of my phone was more important than music and having exact info on my race.

It rained for half if not more of my race. They actually had to do a detour on one part of the race that runs on the Campion Trail because it wasn’t just kind of flooded over it was REEEEALLY flooded over. As in if I ran through that I think the water would have been up to my hips, but I’m also short if you have noticed from all the pictures where I stand next to Teal. 🙂

Throughout the race I didn’t really know how I was doing and was just excited every time I passed a mile marker. With less than a mile to go I spotted some friends on the course, Lisa & Lucy (who I still had not meet IRL until that moment). That was nice little boost at the end. And then the race was over. I was drenched and had no clue how I did, but was excited to have my 10K bling! 🙂

I absolutely love this race! It’s for an awesome cause, it’s close to home and I get a medal for running a 10K! I didn’t get to stick around too long after the race as some friends of Brent’s were in town and I need to get to brunch. Priorities, people! But I did get to see quite a few people at the end which was very fun!

Julie and me

Jesse & me – love his shirt!

I was pleasantly surprised to find out later that day that my naked run at Wounded Warrior was only 15 seconds behind my 10K PR! I finished in 54:46 which was 9th in my age group. Not too shabby!