Down Syndrome of Louisville 5K

Saturday morning I ran in my second Down Syndrome of Louisville's annual 5k. This event is used to raise money and awareness for Down Syndrome. It was an awesome event.

The morning started off for me around 5:30 am. This was due to the fact that I wanted to get up early enough to try and score some University of Kentucky Big Blue Madness tickets that were going on sale at 6:00 am. I was lucky enough to get some. This event sold out in about 10 minutes. The tickets are free, but due to the fact that I had to go through ticketmaster, they cost me about $7.

After that my wife and I headed over to the event. Unfortunately due to work and other obligations, Chris was not able to run in this event. That kinda sucked. I would have to say that next to my kids, he is my favorite running partner. Once I arrived at the waterfront I found Z, who was running, and headed to the sign in area. Shortly after I got signed in Sam showed up. I think that Sam has only ran in a couple of official runs, but he runs every day at lunch. After meeting up with everyone we made our way to the start. There were probably around 200-300 participants. Sam said that his goal was to hit 26 minutes for this run. I told him I was shooting for 24. Z just wanted to finish before Sam, who beat him last year.

At 8:15 we were off. Z stayed with me until just after the first mile. I tried to motivate him to keep up, but he just didn't have it. So I was soon on my own. I ended up finishing the run in 23:53. Which ended up being about 1 minute faster than last year. Z was up next and finished in 24:50, I think. Sam finished up with a 26:06. I think that all of the times would have been a little bit faster if the course had been different. At the start we were really bunched up due to the lack of running room on the sidewalks near the river. Still good times and everyone hit their goals.

After the run, we hung out and checked out the booths before participating with Double D and his family in the walk.

All I can say is that it was a great time.

Up next for me will be the Christian Academy 4-miler in a couple of weeks with Chris. Should be fun.

Later