Irish Jog 5K

Tonight we all went to the Butterfield Irish Jog. This was their 20th year and each year all of the proceeds go to a charity. The charity this year was Fueling Young Minds, a program that works to make sure that every single student gets a lunch every day.

We met up with Kristy, who is turning into my race buddy. We also ran into Mart Marie and Linden.

The three kids ready to race

The race had over 1000 people (that's about 2% of the population of the entire country!!!). They divided people up so that the serious runners went first, followed by the joggers/walkers (where Kristy and I went), and then lastly the people with strollers (where Justin and Tucker and Scott and Arianna went).

Scott and Arianna stayed with Justin and Tucker who were moving at the strong pace of a two year old pulling a wagon!

I passed them early on going back on a loop that was at the beginning but before the four of them decided to cut the course short and go wait to cheer us on at the finish line.

After about the first 1.5 miles I got behind a lady who nicely let me draft behind her. She was setting a good pace and keeping up with her forced me to keep jogging instead of stopping to walk at any point.  We pushed each other at the end and went around (and sometimes through) a bunch of people right at the end (she is 555).

I finished in 35 minutes which is 3 minutes faster than my time of 38 minutes on the Tower Run at the beginning of March. It was a nice route through the golf course although it was hot since it was held at 5:30 in the afternoon.

We stuck around afterwards to see if we won any of the prizes (no one did) and Arianna had a lot of fun running around and seeing all the people.

We kept Arianna up an extra hour but she had a lot of fun and it was nice to have both Scott and her support for a run!