Running to Rescue

This morning the three of us participated in the Running to Rescue 5k.  Mostly I wanted a 5k to run in, but this really is a good cause.  The money was raised to support The A21 campaign.  The group's focus is to fight human trafficking.  Sadly this is a big problem for the world today.  Millions of women are victims of human trafficking & are forced into this horrendous crime.  It's easy to ignore it or think that it doesn't affect us or that it only happens in the movies.  (I remember watching the movie Taken several years ago.  That movie freaked me out because you know that kind of thing happens all the time.)  I'm glad there are groups like this & events like this to raise awareness of this horrible industry.



As for the race itself, it was pretty good.  It was held in Vintage Township & we raced around the neighborhood.  You had to do three laps for the 5k.  I lined up with the runners (toward the back since my running is not that fast, lol).  Brad had Kiley in the jogging stroller & he was lined up kinda between the runners & walkers.  It was soooo hot.  We realized when we had already left the house that we had forgotten sunscreen & hats & Brad's sunglasses.  And the saddest part was that I just cleaned the car out yesterday...we had all that stuff in there before I cleaned it out!  It was hard for me to tell how good I was doing (since you had to do 3 laps, it felt especially long!), and since Brad kept catching up to me :)  I tried to run as much as I could & only walk a little (and walk fast when I did have to walk).  My time ended up being 38:04!  I'm pretty pleased with that.  My goals were pretty similar to my first 5k:  finish, not be last, and finish in at least 43:20 (my last 5k time) but I really wanted to finish in less than 40 minutes!  What I like about running is that you can compete against yourself & try to beat your own time. Sometimes it is easy for me to feel like I'm not doing that good when there are people who finish in less than 30 minutes, but I just remind myself that I haven't been running that long & when I started I could not even run 2 minutes!  Oh, and Brad finished in about 39 minutes...and he hasn't even been running or anything!