What can you do in 50 minutes?

...I can jog a 5k!

So today was the big day- St. Paddy's Dash here in Seattle. I got up at the crack of dawn to get down there, found great parking, the sun was shining, it was perfect! I ended up being in the last wave to start. I passed a bunch of walkers in the leg that started before mine, and that felt pretty good. I was able to snap a few photos along the way and I made a VLOG when I got back to my car. I didn't have a timing chip, but by my analog watch it was pretty much 50 minutes on the dot. I wanted to finish in under an hour and jog the whole way- I met both goals! I am so glad to be back to running, I am going to continue training and I will be doing more 5k's- I'll definitely be posting about it as they come up. I'm also feeling like a half marathon would be a good goal for me to look at right now too. I'm going to see what is coming up at the end of summer, maybe fall for that one.

Here are some photos, and of course at the end is my post dash VLOG.... enjoy!

about 7:30am (due to daylight savings it actually felt like 6:30am)

my ode to spring picture... this is on a star magnolia tree- they bloom right around my birthday every year, one of my favorites!

getting ready for my wave to start...

1 mile down, 2 and 7/8 to go!

I think this is Green Lake and I think I took the picture from the Aurora bridge... I'm not very knowlegeable about Seattle places though. This was right before the turnaround...

here I come! the FINISH line!

after crossing the finish line I continued down the chute a while before I turned around to see how many people were still coming through... there were a lot! The finish is way back by the traffic signal lights

the finish was right next to the Space Needle