Yet again, lol, a post long past due... This post takes place a week after my Midsummer nights run (so that Makes it.. Aug 28th), and I have a 10k run with a team I joined (The Butt-erflies - Rafeeza, Aleisha, Yuki, Yuka, Kristen and I) in raising funds for cancers below the waist. Aside from the anxiety of not making my minimum (but thankfully I have some really awesome friends + team members who pulled through for me in the end!), I was a little sore and thought maybe it would be good to take it easy and do the 5km walk instead.
I arrived at the woodbine park early and picked up my race kit, switched over to do the walk and observed at the multitude of different costumes all the participants around me had on. The theme of the race was to wear things that bring cancers below the waist to mind; some of the costumes ranged from bras + patterned thongs to neon green unitards!
When my teammates arrived they brought the remaining bits of costume, a set butterfly wings! This was all handcrafted by one of my team members, Kristen. Oh, and there was also the garter with butterflies hanging off the tail of it. Fancy workmanship!
After we had secured our race chip to our shoe and saftey pinned our bib numbers to our shirts, we watched as the presenters on stage called out the top fundraisers onstage. There was also a best costume contest... one of the ones I thought was great was the sumo one. lol She even did the sumo pose for us!
The race started for the runners at 6:30pm, and the one runner from our group - Aleisha, spirited off to complete the 10k. For us walkers, we started - give our take around 7pm, and due to the large number of participants, rather than the power walk I expected, we ended up doing an easy stroll. Not that I was complaining! hehe. It was a pleasant and leisure walk, chatting with my team mates and finishing together!
Once we crossed the finish line, not more than a few minutes passed before we saw Aleisha cross over as well. The team was together again! We went to pick up our handbags, souvineer tshirt, and had some drinks offered by some of the tents at the Expo. An event with an awesome and refreshing finish:
Cheers! :)
