Guess what? I’m officially a race director. Can you believe it? My 5K went off without any major hitches (or at least anything that created a huge stir) and I’m so relieved. I basically didn’t sleep from Friday to Saturday because I was so all consumed by thoughts of this race and hopes that nothing went terribly wrong.
Instead of writing it all out, I figure pictures are worth a thousand words. Thanks to all of the local bloggers that came out to run, walk, or volunteer.
Tori,
Jessica,
Rachel,
Kat,
KC,
Brooke, and
Steph – You gals are awesome.
(It’s so cool to read race reports of my race, btw!! Go read them!!)
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| Potato chips and water. What else could we need? |
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| Ah yes, we need the big blue poop houses. |
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| Registration tables were hopping. (My mom is the 2nd from the left. Go Mom!) |
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| My stepmom and aunt came out to help. Love. |
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| Holy crap that’s a lot of race day registers! |
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| Waiting on the race to start. |
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| “I’m sorry we ran out of safety pins. Please contribute two and I’ll give you two bananas.” |
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| More registering and waiting. |
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| And they are off! (We had over 500 runners! Can’t believe it!) |
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| We’re a stroller friendly race. |
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| Lazy Runner thanking the sponsors and announcing winners. |
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| Big ones for the overall winners. |
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| Age group awards. |
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| Giving an AG award to my friend Kitty. |
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| A tiny AG winner. And my favorite photo of the day. |
I just cannot thank everyone enough. From everyone who came out to race all the way to the spectators and volunteers, my appreciation is through the roof. I could (and would) not have been to do this without Lazy Runner. We were joking about how if I put the race on alone there’d be shirts, awards, bananas, etc and no runners. Had he put it on alone there’d be 2,000 runners with no shirts, awards, bananas, etc. Heh. We make a great team. And yes, I’d love to do another race. I just need to re-group on my own races coming up. More on that later this week.
Before heading off I have to say a
HUGE congrats to
Katie and
Beth on both being a motherfracking Ironman. Lloyd and I were cheering them on yesterday. Of course, Lloyd was rocking the Team Amazing Day shirt. They both did “amazing” and we’re all SO proud.
Faith not fear wins every time. And finally, CONGRATS to my pro-triathlete pen-pal, and
Team Arctic Ease member
Meredith Kessler on her 4th IM win!
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| You can bet Katie’s puppies are shitting rainbows all over the place today. |
Congrats Ms. Race Director! So proud of you and LR for pulling this off! #RDLikeABoss
You and LR were so freaking awesome this weekend! I am glad I got to be a part of it. 🙂
It was a fun race and you guys did a FABULOUS job yo!
Congratulations!!
I've been to enough races where they ran out of safety pins that I now carry all of my leftover safety pins in my running bag.
Congrats Again! Glad it went well and you were so lucky with the weather! Man, perfect timing! Looks like you got the speediest people in Tampa to come out too. Sorry again that I didn' make it. MPM tri got canceled after all that anyways. See? You could have been in the same boat (so to speak!) as poor Susan Daniels (race dir of MPM), standing out in the pouring rain telling everyone to go home and no race…
congrats RD!! Looks like an awesome day.
shitting rainbows!! woooot
Congrats!
Yay! So proud of you! Everyone said it was fab. Wish I could have been there. You have to do another one!
Proud of you. You've come a long way, baby!
Fun! Congrats!!!
I had such a great time at your race. The Weather was perfect and I think I set a PR!
Congratulations Big-Time Race Director Lady. Sounds like everything went swimmingly. Oh, and I finally heard that one song that your Batman smacking Robin thing a couple blogs back referenced. I was sitting in some Pittsburgh food establishment just minding my own business, and it came on.
that is kick ass. well done, race director!
So cool! Congratulations to you & Lazy Runner! I can only imagine how stressful, but rewarding it would be! Sounds like you have a great team helping you out!
Congrats on directing a great race! Looks like everyone had an awesome time!
Congrats on the successful race. How cool is that?
Very cool! Looks like you pulled off a great race. and I was tracking Katie all day sunday too. so cool.
Congrats girl! That is so awesome!
what a huge success!!! i'd be stressed. you rocked it! i guess LR did a little too 😉