American In Sydney

Family Fun Run

I did it! I ran my first Sydney marathon - okay...it's called a family fun run and it's only 4kms, but I did it! I didn't walk any of it and I with thousands of other people ran across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and to the Opera House. It was incredible. So it was the Family Fun Run and as the name says, it was all about families. You would see parents running with strollers and little kids from 5-11 years olds just running in full sprint. You can see that the motivation for me NOT to walk was in seeing that little 7 year olds were passing me right, left, and center and I could NOT just stop and walk. Even dads with huge backpacks strapped to them were running at paces I could only call a sprint. But...that's okay, cause I did it and I think that we were in the middle front of the pack! We finished the run with a time of 25:47 - that's in minutes and not hours. I am very proud of myself.

Afterwards, we got our family fun run medals of completion, and our goody-bags full of goodies (freebees, sample cereals, coffee, go green bags, etc). It was incredible. It really looked like the entire city was out for their morning run and we were a part of it.

posted by Leighna @ 1:46 pm