Chuckanut Foot Race...

Jessica Bjorn and I ran the Chuckanut Foot Race on Saturday (a nice 7miler on mostly trails).  It was my 4th year running it and it was Jessica's first Race ever and I had the privilege of being part of that experience.  Thank you Jess!  

We had a great time together.  I did have a moment where I just couldn't get my breathing back to normal after these two nasty hills.  But other than that we really had a good pace over all and stayed together well.  We averaged a pace of 9 min and 18 seconds per mile.  That is the fastest I have ran in months.  Jessica was a great motivation for me.  She has a lot of energy and vigor.  The weather was also wonderful!  I'm definitely running this one again.  I will be attempting to recruit again.  Jessica be ready, I will be asking you again! 

I think I might have talked her into doing a half marathon this Fall.  I have recruited a few friends, including Rob, to run the Leavenworth Marathon in October with me.  There is a half and a full so there's a choice.  I will be running the Full again, I really feel I can do better. 

P.S  The girls and Rob came out to support us during or race.  Rob took a ton of pictures.  The girls enjoyed some time at the beach and then walking around this Garden place that had free-ranging chickens.  They met us at some spots through out the race.  It was nice to see them.  Rob even got them to hold some signs and another time they waved these branches at us like they were pom poms, really cute, cheering us on!  Thank you for your support!