SWOLE SISTERS: April 2012

Sunday was the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler. It was lots of fun, a little chilly, and a lot crowded. There weren't a whole lot of Cherry Blossoms to see. Our freakishly warm weather the last few weeks and now cold weather have all plants in a WTF state.

5 am wake up call. Pretty excited to hit the Metro

View getting off the metro. We basically started right at the Monument


Start/Finish line

We walked with purpose to the first porta potty we could find. I read there would be 180 - which I was pretty sure I'd use them. I used the porta potty two times before the race. Pretty normal.

Lining up in our choral. Naturally I feel the need for the bathroom again

Holy cow there were SO many people.


First potty stop was at .2 miles. This is at 3 miles. 15 minute wait. ugh

I felt terrible waiting 15 minutes for the bathroom, but I had to. I had no idea when the next one would be.

As always Sam is super happy

Drum circle. It was awesome

Some times Sam pushed the pace

Sometimes I pushed the pace

The only group of Cherry Blossoms I saw

Beautiful flowers everywhere

At the end of the race my bathroom stops totaled 5. Who does that? That's my record for sure. Two before and three during the run. I really need to figure out how to fix that. I spent 22 minutes on bathroom stops during the race. Not what I want to be doing.

The race was great. The sun never came out and the water stops were plenty. Sam really liked the distance - nice that he did a 1/2 marathon (first time) and then the 10 miler (first time). My only complaint about the race was the post food stuff. We had to walk a while after finishing for the water. Normally it's shoved right in your face. We eventually found wrapped muffins - but we found no other food at all. We decided to just get to the metro and eat at home.