Saturday, February 13, 2010

Love Em or Leave Em 5k Results

Location: Greenlake, WA
Official time: 26:04
Chip time: 25:47
Pace/mile: 8:17/mile

Overall: 420/2335
Gender Place: 169/1575
Age Place:68/525


Great day for the race! There were roughly 2300 people who gathered at Greenlake for the Valentine's Day Love Em or Leave Em 5k. It was the second annual race, but happens to be the largest Valentine's day 5k in the country (so they said).

 Wearing Pink for Valentine's Day

The course was luckily marked off to the public and held on the road (rather than on the inner loop path). This made the course wider and much easier for the crowds to get through. The race was chip timed, so it didn't matter as much that there were TONS of people there. It was fairly well organized, and had fruit, water, doughnuts from Top Pot and other treats and tents waiting for us after the race. Even though this was a rather small race, it was well attended and I would do it again next year.

Also, I felt great running it! I definitely think I can run faster, I just need to work on speed. I didn't actually think that I had run it that fast. Ill take it though :)

 
My friend Becky and I after the race


 Longsleeved t-shirt from the race

All in all, not too bad for a Saturday. Ill do this race again. Hope everyone had a great Saturday!

8 comments:

  1. Great pictures. Glad you had a nice race. I cannot wait to get back into the game.

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  2. Sounds fun! Hope to do this one next year!

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  3. Hi Sarah,
    Good job on your 5k today!! Those are great pictures:) I love it when I find races that I know I want to do again:) Have a great week Sarah:)

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  4. Nice time! You're getting into John Curly territory...

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  5. Great job Sarah! Love the pictures!

    Check out my latest post. I left you something!

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  6. VERY COOL! I may need to run that race in the future.. Lots of people.. Excited to meet you in the near future Sarah :)

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  7. I would have loved to do a valentine dash!
    2300 is a huge race!
    I love the pink!

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  8. Hi, I found you through Maureen's blog and I can't wait to read more :)

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