Last weekend, I ran the Hippie Chick half-marathon with 5 of my very good girlfriends. We were blessed with absolutely gorgeous weather! It was a really pretty run through rural Hillsboro with fields of bright red flowers, a beautiful old church and lots of supporters lining the race route. What a better way to kick off Mother's Day weekend than with an all-woman race of 13.1 miles? After I was done, I said I would never do that again. However, after having a week to think about it, I am going to do it again next year with my sister! It was a great race and a lot of fun to train and run with my friends.
The 6 of us had been training since January. My friend, Lauri, and I would meet Friday nights to do our "long" runs. We started by running 4 miles and each week would increase our run by one mile. The best part of our runs is when we would go to either coffee or ice cream after completing our grueling long runs. So fun! On Mondays, we would all get together for our "short" runs, usually 3 or 4 miles. Now that we have completed our race, we are still planning on getting together to run, but not nearly for as long. And we'll probably still have ice cream when we are done!
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