Run Around the Universe

One week after the Season's 5.2K, I talked Heidi into running the Run Around the Universe race at Universal Studios. This was an EXTREMELY cold morning. I'm thinking the temperature was around 30 degrees!!! I couldn't believe it. But again, I run better in the cold.

This was a race to hang with Heidi. I really wanted to push her to see how far SHE could run. (Side note: Heidi was only planning to WALK the entire thing) I don't run a 5K and WALK it. We needed to run! So we started off with the crowd. There was only about 2,000 people there. Kind of a smaller race, but it was fun weaving in and out of the Studios and getting a "behind the scenes" look at Universal Studios. We RAN the first 2 miles!!!! Okay, we stopped RIGHT before the 2nd mile mark. But, for Heidi's sake, we ran the 2 miles! :) The "Behind the Scenes" look at Universal is what did it. It was absolutely BORING to run back there. Nothing exciting about it. There were workers all back there, either taking their breaks or started their mornings, all completely looking like zombies and depressed. And no, they were not in costumes! It was just depressing.

After we had gotten out from back there, the race went onto the streets through Universal and we ended up on a damn COBBLESTONE ROAD! UGH! Worst! But we made it through there.

Al Roker was even there for the news! But we missed him :(

Probably the best part of this race was Heidi running 2 miles continuously and getting MARDI GRAS BEADS AT THE END!!!!

Race Time: 38:34