Today was the big day – our running club’s first ever 5K – the Just Book It! 5K. All of the proceeds are going to be used to expand the Grayslake Library’s children’s youth theme reading bags (read more about that here). And there was a huge turnout – 419 5Kers and maybe about 50 in the kid’s race.
I didn’t really have many volunteering duties the day of the race (I was in charge of the website) so I just showed up an hour early and helped when needed (Steven was a course marshal, so he helped out much more than me!). The race provided a chance to hook up with a few blogger friends – Erin, Lauren, Marcia (my first time meeting her!) and of course, Bobbi (who is also a club member).
My first hour flew by and it was time for the 5K. My goal was to pace Bobbi to a sub 30:00 PR, and I had permission to be as mean as necessary to keep her on target. I didn’t have to be too mean, and our official time was 28:55! She did awesome!
We hung out after the race and stuck around for awards. The time seemed to fly by since we were all chatting. I love my blogger girlfriends! I wish I got to see them more often!
And after awards were over, I “just booked it” (ha ha) home. I had house guests and felt rude being gone so long. I wish I could have stayed later to help at the race, but almost everything was taken care of – they really had a lot of volunteers!
Anyway, I am really impressed at all the work that went in to this race and how well it went together. There was just so much planning and coordination – and I was not even a part of a lot of it! I am really proud of our club for putting it all together! And I am happy the library will use the funds for the youth theme reading bags!
It was a really well-done race, especially for being an inaugural. The turnout was awesome. I loved finally meeting you and the rest of the local blogger girls!
Thank you Marcia! Congrats on your AG win! And I loved meeting you too! I hope we get to spend more time together again. Maybe I should organize something for the 5 of us – it seemed like we made a good group! 🙂
I had an awesome time at this race! It was great to see you again and meet the other Chicago blogger ladies. Grayslake was beautiful and I loved that the race wasn’t as crowded as some of the crazy chi-town races!
Thanks so much for coming Lauren! It was great to see you again. I hope we can get together soon! 🙂
Bobbi and Lauren are awesome! Looks like a really great day. 🙂 Congrats to your group on a successful 5K
Congrats to everyone! The race was fabulous, you’re a great pacer, and Bobbi, Lauren and Marcia had great races! The club did a great job putting on the race and I bet it will be even better next year.
Thanks Erin! And thanks for coming all the way out for the race 🙂
Nice job! Thats awesome that so many bloggers were there! 🙂 If only I wasn’t on the other side of Chicago…haha
What a great inaugural race! Thank you SO MUCH for playing drill sargeant!
This race sounded great!!
Congrats to you on this race. I just noticed you are much taller than the others in that last photo.
Ha ha. You crack me up. I am not that tall! 🙂 But I guess I have some shorter friends 🙂