Shunning the Sun

November 12, 2011 - Saturday

We ran Pat's Run back in April of 2010.  That was our first race, and we hadn't run one since.  But a few months ago Jayna's friend Tarah put something on facebook about how she was running in an upcoming race for the Shun the Sun foundation and inviting all her friends to sign up.  Jayna decided that signing up for another race would be good motivation to start running again after having Coleton so she signed us both up for the 5K race.

We 'trained' for about a month before the race, running once or twice a week.  It was good motivation to start running again.  Now that we have four kids we aren't able to run together, so we just had to train separately while the other watched the kids.  The race started just outside of Hohokam stadium, went along the canal next to it and then back to finish in the stadium. 

Us at Jayna's parents house after the race in our snazzy shirts

I finished with a time of 24:54 (8:01 mile pace) and Jayna finished with a time of (10:14 mile pace).  It was fun seeing some old friends there - Tarah's mom and dad, her sister Kasey, and our friend Katy.  We didn't get to see Tarah since she was running the half marathon and we had to leave pretty quickly after our race to get home to our kids.