Peachtree Road Race 2012

Its taken me 3 years to get in but I finally got to run the Peachtree road race! Its said to be one of the largest 10k races ever, if not the biggest. they had big runners there like Dean K, Jeff Galloway who won the first Peachtree I guess spoke after. I was told to not expect a PR because of the heat, hills and mad chaos of that many people. I found some friends who were running it so I asked to tag along, since I really don't know anything about it. It ended up being really fun with them. I was put in corral D, they assign you slots from your qualifying race, it's the alphabet. I got a pretty great corral, and 2 of the people I went with were in the same one. So I started off with them and they were fast, really fast. I was running with the Dad who races and runs a lot, and his 14 year old track team daughter and it's her first race. I had planned on doing a easy first mile and then speeding up but by trying to keep up with them my first 3 miles were under 9 minutes or really close to 9. The daughter was completely unable to speak, I don't know if she was tired, hot, nervous or all of that. SO I talked her through the whole race, I pointed out cool buildings, we ran by Jamesons new college!!! I pointed out funny people, made her try to smile for every camera and we counted down every mile! we lost some time on the major hill but we still managed to come in under a hour which was my goal! After we finished we were sitting on grass waiting for everyone else and a dad and his daughter sat next to me, this girl was 11 years old and this was her 2nd time running the race! I am totally going to train Elle to run with me! Heck I'm going to try for Kirk and the boys!!
After the people who drove me and my friends explained it's their tradition of 7 years of racing to stop at this burrito place and eat lunch. They also bought 5 pitchers of margaritas and couldn't leave till they were gone! It took a long, long time to get home! I really just wanted to take off my shoes and sleep. So next year I'm doing it again, and driving my car cuz now I get where to go!!

I was very daring with my short Lululemon running skirt and I loved! And yes thats a bandaid on my leg, I had a "suspicious" freckle cut off the day before.

Out of the 60,000 people running, I came in 9,738! Not too bad! And I got the shirt which is really the best prize!