On Saturday I ran into one of my classmates who had just registered for the Beat the Bridge to Beat Diabetes event. She told me it was an 8k (5 mile) run and that she was was going to run/jog (slowly) with another classmate of ours. I thought it sounded like fun so I stopped by the Husky Stadium and registered. I met up with my classmates in the morning who were part of a larger fundraising team. There were thousands of people there and they closed off the streets to traffic for the race. It was sort of like a big fair. During the race my classmates and I stuck together which made it more fun than just running with a group of strangers.
This is the course map. We went across the Montlake bridge and the University Bridge. The University bridge is the bridge you have to beat because they raise it up 20 minutes after they release the third wave of runners and it is at the 2 mile mark.
Here is a picture of the finish line/area at Husky Stadium. There were tables of water, sports drinks, and fruit for you at the finish line. It was a warm day and I was pretty thirsty at the end of the race. They had these water stations along the race course where you could get a cup of water and drink it while you were running, it is a cool concept, but I wasn't very good at it.
Here was their little logo thing that I downloaded off the internet. The event was sponsored by Nordstrom and raised over a million dollars for type 1 diabetes research.
Here are some pictures of me all sweaty after I walked home. I got my "results" back today and did better than I thought. Our group of med students averaged about 9 minutes per mile (we took around 45 minutes to run the 5 miles) which is pretty good, I think. I never would have run that fast if my classmates weren't running with me and encouraging me. Peer pressure/team spirit is the keep to motivation!
Another sweaty post event picture. It was a lot of fun.
This is the course map. We went across the Montlake bridge and the University Bridge. The University bridge is the bridge you have to beat because they raise it up 20 minutes after they release the third wave of runners and it is at the 2 mile mark.
Here is a picture of the finish line/area at Husky Stadium. There were tables of water, sports drinks, and fruit for you at the finish line. It was a warm day and I was pretty thirsty at the end of the race. They had these water stations along the race course where you could get a cup of water and drink it while you were running, it is a cool concept, but I wasn't very good at it.
Here was their little logo thing that I downloaded off the internet. The event was sponsored by Nordstrom and raised over a million dollars for type 1 diabetes research.
Here are some pictures of me all sweaty after I walked home. I got my "results" back today and did better than I thought. Our group of med students averaged about 9 minutes per mile (we took around 45 minutes to run the 5 miles) which is pretty good, I think. I never would have run that fast if my classmates weren't running with me and encouraging me. Peer pressure/team spirit is the keep to motivation!
Another sweaty post event picture. It was a lot of fun.
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