I was a Dasher Dasher....

Earlier this month I ran in my first 5k at the 21st Annual Jingle Bell Run in Downtown Seattle in the Dasher Dashers category.

I wanted to have a "race day" experience because it made me kind of nervous. So early on a COLD Sunday morning, Bob and I headed down to Westlake Center to join 10,000 other people for this event. It was very festive (they even gave out jingle bells) with people in costume and everything.

Race-wise it was a total madhouse. I don't think I started running for about 2-3 minutes because the starting area was so thick with people. And at times I felt that I wanted to run faster (may have been deluding myself) but couldn't because of how close together people were. That was particularly apt, I thought, during the section we were on the I-5 express lanes.

I don't think I got a valid sense of time (it took me 36 minutes) but it was way fun to run towards a finish line.

Afterwards we celebrated by having doughnuts at Top Pot in Capital Hill. Sounds like a great race day tradition to me.....