Anyone notice what shirt I'm wearing? After last week's Thursday Thoughts and all your comments on how I needed to wear my animal shirts out in public, I thought I'd bring one out for the race! 
So stylish Anyway, the race was pretty small, and separated into men and women. I really liked this because then it was even smaller! We ran through the neighborhoods in Oak Park and it was really beautiful and a very well organized race. We had nothing but good things to say about the 5K! 
Lindsay was super excited! Haha It was definitely not my best race ever, but I expected that since I haven't actually been running much lately The last mile was rough on me, I had a hard time keeping up and my stomach was seriously cramping. But, as Lindsay said, at least I know where I'm at now so I know what I need to do to work on my 5K PR! 
My IT band/hip isn't thrilled there will be lots of foam rolling this week. Thankfully, Lindsay and Kelsey pushed me to the finish I came in seconds behind them at 26:22. Not shabby! 
With all that being said, I'm glad we all decided to run the 5K and I had a lot of fun, plus we loved the carnations that they gave us at the end of the race! I highly recommend checking out this 5K next year if you live in the Chicago area, we all want to run it again! Have you run a race recently? What's a fitness/physical goal that you're working on? Did you do anything with friends this weekend? All photos in today's post are courtesy of the lovely Kelsey.
