I did it!

Yesterday morning I woke up at 4:00am because I was so excited.  I left the house about 6 to make the hour drive to the 5K at the beach.  It was absolutely beautiful at Jennings beach!  I was really freaked out by all the people, because I have been training alone.  I am used to just doing my own thing and talking the the dogs I encounter or saying hi to neighbors.  This was much different.  These people know what they are doing and that was extremely intimidating.  I do need to say that the running community is, by far, the nicest group of people I've ever met.  People I had never set eyes on before, were giving me hugs for good luck and there wasn't a stranger in the crowd.  I'm not just talking about the group I was with, I'm talking about the entire 1,000 or so people.  A woman who realized that I am a cancer survivor, looked for me at the starting line just to give me a good luck knuckle pound.  Unbelievable!  Also, Carlee, one of the TNT coaches, who is 8 months pregnant, stayed with me the whole time.  By the way, the sweat was pouring off of me and she was cool as a cucumber.  I can't thank her enough for watching out for me. 

I need to give you the bottom line here now, because I'm heading out the door.  I will give more details later today.  I did finish the race!  I was also the last person to cross the finish line.  I was kind of mad when I found that out, but my son said, "what the hell Mom, you finished a 5k and you're a cancer survivor.  There are army guys who couldn't do that."  I felt a hundred percent better.