Cherry Blossom Ten Miler

This weekend myself and a group of Bouncing Buns girls ran the Cherry Blossom Ten Miler! It was a great race. What made this weekend even more special is my bestie since middle school flew in from KC for this race weekend and I am so glad we did. We got to catch up and do something we both love doing.

Here is a quick recap of the race weekend!

Friday night Ginger, Jen, Alexa, and I  headed downtown DC to the National Building Museum for packet pick-up and the expo, we debated on taking the metro or driving and thanks to an awesome neighbor who suggested driving we landing a parking spot right in front of the museum! On a side note, because it was the weekend...we only had to pay for 15 minutes of parking! Sweet!!

Packet-pick up was quick and easy so we headed over the expo and picked up or race shirts...the teal is pretty but kinda wishing I would have upgraded to the tech-tee it was nicer. O'well, I will just add it to my pile of cotton race t-shirts that I plan on doing something with..someday. One pleasant surprise was the free beer! Yes, everyone got a free beer with a bib! Awesome! We picked up our beer and walked around the expo and shopped. I am a sucker too...I almost alway buy something. I can't help itt, I get wrapped up in the moment. I picked up a SpiBelt for my son and then I headed over to the Sweaty Bands booth. My friend Jen swears by them! She convinced me to try one since I have no luck at keep other brands on my head. There were so many to choose from! I picked this cute chevron one! After the expo we got dinner downtown at Gordon Biersch. Yummy!

The night before the race I started to question my choice of outfit! Eekkkk. It was going to be cold in the morning, 30 degrees cold  and by finish only 42 degrees! So I decided last minute to put a long sleeve over my tech-tee, then added my throw away jacket over that(all clothing on the thrown on the course is donated). Threw my jacket away at the 2 mile mark and my gloves at the 3 mile mark. The long sleeves was the right choice. It was freezing waiting for about an hour before we actually started to run. Once we started it was perfect running weather. One of the best photos I found on the race photo website was this one...

A picture of Ginger and I taking a selfie and the selfie that we took! 

Awesome! Notice that Sweaty Band is still on my head at mile 7! They do work! All in all it was a beautiful race even though the Cherry Blossoms were not in full bloom. 

I only have 2 complaints about the race...1) You had to pay for the medal...I am cheap so I didn't even though it was cute. 2) By the time our purple wave got done with the race the 5k people were done and there was no food except bananas...and after running 10 miles we were starving and bananas were not going to cut it!!! Lucky for us my husband met us at the finish and he stuck a bunch of breakfast bars in his bag before he left home! Thank you, awesome husband!! 

A big shout out to Jen for her first big race and to Lisa for encouraging Jen the whole way. What a great group of inspiring ladies! With all these fantastic ladies they made the training better and it helped Ginger and I  PR from our Army Ten Miler time!! Yippee! We are getting faster even when we do stop for a selfie! 

DC BB's 

Alexa, myself, Jen, Lisa, and Ginger!