What a great day for a run and to race for the ribbon – raising money for breast cancer research! This race was not the biggest race but it felt like the right amount of people. My first race of the season – a 5k – and I finished 26:58 which may even been earlier but they didn’t use that automatic chrono tracking system and used those stubs which I find to be consistently inaccurate. It takes a while to get going with a race like this because you are behind people when you start off and then people tend to like to run together in the groups they are with which holds you back. I get frustrated at times because walls of people block any chance of you getting to break away. I did the race with some of my Plumbline family which made it more fun. I tend to keep my eye on the ladies during the race to set my pace.  We even ran into Michael our trainer from Plumbline Training who ran the race with his family.

After wards we all went to this new diner in Ashburn, Coney Island Diner. It’s right off Rte 7 and they serve all sorts of diner fare. While I wouldn’t say it’s the best diner I have been to – I am from New Jersey after all – it’s decent food and reasonably priced. Here is a coupon you can use through April.

I feel so lucky that I have these great ladies in my life and they love doing active stuff like I do. I am going to look into doing some water rafting this spring/summer with the group. Where else can you find some super fun, in shape suburban women that love to go and try new things?

Spring is in the Air…can you feel it?