Rainy Race Results

On Saturday night, my dear husband ran in the Summer Sizzler, a 5K race at Johnson County Community College. He had only run one other 5K in his adult life, which was last summer at the Race for the Cure in Kansas City. For that race, he ran regularly for a few weeks beforehand, but he didn't do any serious training. This time he trained for about 7 weeks, running 3 times a week and doing lots of longer runs (5 and 6 miles) and also some speed work. His goal was to run the 3.1 miles in under 7 minutes per mile. Saturday night, all of his hard work finally paid off!

For a while we weren't really sure if the race would be held at all, because after almost 3 days of solid rain, it rained all morning and afternoon on Saturday as well. Late in the afternoon, the thunderstorms started to break up a little, and although we hit a few sprinkles on the way to KC, the rain had stopped by the time we arrived. There was a bit of a strong wind, but we couldn't complain because the temperature was unseasonably cool. I actually needed a jacket by the time the sun went down!

The race started right at dusk, so pictures were a little difficult, but I managed to get a shot of Chad at the beginning and right before the finish line. His official time: 21:25. He finished 23rd overall out of 127 people and 5th in his age division out of 16 people. Most importantly, he reached his goal of running under 7 minute miles, averaging about a 6:53 mile! It was very exciting and I was a very proud wife! Check out the complete set of pictures if you're interested!