Zoo Zoommmmm 2010

After my all night worry of having all forty one of us with Team Lucca possibly out there running in what was forecasted as blustry cold rain, what mother nature gifted us with instead, was from this runners perspective, the most perfect race weather.

I hope you all enjoyed the race as much as I did. I found myself still with camara in hand, taking pictures of the start when the gun went off and thankfully found Dan, who is recovering from injury to give my camara to so that I could jump in and run with the 5k group. I had to laugh when I came up behind a father and son, both rather stocky, both breathing heavily to hear the dad say, "Son, stick to wrestling okay?, this running stuff -not for us".

I had to laugh again when I found myself getting close to the finish running in a group of 6 little munchkins, kids who didn't even reach my waist, and so I thought this is what it has become for me, these here are my running peeps. I sprinted right along with them all, fast as we could go, all the way to the finish line.

We have some incredible runners in our group and here is what I have found result wise thus far.

Out of 620 Runners in the 10K-

Coming in at #35 Andrew Navarette, running a 6:57 mile the whole way and finishing in 43:06

Way to run Andrew!

#37 and right behind Andrew was Dale Giesen, running a 6:58 mile pace and finishing in 43:09

and at #46 place, Andy Schile with a 7:04 pace and finishing in 43:46.

Becky MacBride was first with the ladies at an 8:17 pace and finishing in 51:22 with Cassie and Emily both coming in at an under 9:00 mile pace.

It was sheer joy to welcome our new Team Lucca runner, the awesome, incredible 13 year old Ariel Young.

Ariel came in first in her division and out of the 1300 runners participating in the 5k, Ariel came in 23rd. Amazingly fast and sweet as can be, Ariel is such a wonderful runner and I am so happy to have her as part of our team.

So many of you came in under a 9:00 mile pace in the 5K and again it was a really strong showing of Team Lucca runners out there at Land Park yesterday morning. If I got any of the times wrong or missed anyone, please shoot me an email and let me know. Thank you Joanne, Kara, Jessie and Dan for being out there to cheer the team on.

Get ready for May as we have plenty of races coming up.

Thank you all for being part of this team. I am forever grateful to have such wonderful people to run with.