Women Power! 6000 Strong

This morning was the New York Road Runner's Woman's Mini. A 10k WOMEN ONLY run through Central Park. I met MN downtown and we headed up to meet SWF in the park around 8 am. I was able to sleep about 10 minutes longer than my usual Saturday morning wake-up call. The amazing SWF is 30 weeks pregnant! I joked that she was carrying the only guy in the race! The comments she received all morning were fantastic- from you are beautiful to congrats to be careful! SWF is a runner- she's been running and competing for years and I like to think of her as my personal tri coach so being able to do this run with her this morning was great. MN is a swimmer and is extremely athletic. I was the short one trying to keep up with the tall girls and their long legs!It was hot. HOT! Hot! HOT! I slowed down on the hill around 102nd. I don't mind- as long as I go at consistent pace and finish, I'm happy! I learned that getting water at these runs is hard- there were so many people walking around the water stations it was hard to get around them. They had hoses pouring water down onto us as we ran- anything to cool off is great. The race was fun and while I would have liked to have run a bit faster than my 10:42 pace, I'm just happy I finished! My final time was 1:06:34 or something close to that. I'm glad my first NYRR race was a Woman's Race- it was like Lilith Fair! You Go Girl!