Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure

My prayers were answered — it did not rain!!!! The streets were wet and it was humid but even the sun came out for a few minutes!!

I convinced my husband to give me a ride so I wouldn’t have to look for parking – he dropped me off to find the law school team so I could get my tee shirt and take photo before the race.

Albany Law School Team

As I found last year, it was a very emotional race looking at all the survivors of breast cancer and all those wearing names on their backs of friends and relatives who died from this disease. I myself have 7 close friends who have had breast cancer.

Since it wasn’t raining, I gave my jacket to my husband and Colleen (a new runner from work) & I headed to the race. It was late so we squeezed into the crowd at the start.

me & Colleen

Halfway up the Madison Ave hill, I was out of breath. It was either my cold, mucus in my lungs or the fact that I haven’t run in a week. I struggled the whole race. My one mile time wasn’t too bad -10 min, but the during the 2nd mile, I had to stop to catch my breath or blow my nose several times and was up to 21 min. I knew this wouldn’t be a PR race so I continued and surprisingly I was able to sprint through the finish line. 31:15 is what Cool Running web site says. 616 out 1250 women.