Hamra Time: run

Monday, April 29, 2013

A little COLOR with your Run

Unless you have been living under a rock, you've most likely heard of the color run phenomenon. It is a fun run (not timed) where you get sprayed with cornstarch non-staining colors. It's like every child's dream come true. I finally got to partake in my first color run this past Saturday in the Color Me Rad 5K. It sure didn't feel like a true 5K by the length or atmosphere. There is a certain motivation to keep running so you hit the next color station. As you can see from my face in the after pictures, my personal favorite was the Pink. I ran it with some close friends (my hubby, Megan, Trina, Krissy, Ashley and Chris), our team name: Cray Cray-olas! We looked so RAD at the end. Even the rain didn't stop us. Here are the colorful pics.
Krissy and I made 96.5's website (we look cold!): http://www.power965.com/multimedia/photos/205019151.html#112697781

John looking RAD before the race

Kevin, John, Dylan and Chris before the mess

Trina, Ashley, Krissy, me and Megan

Megan representing her place of employment well

John had the most color coverage!

Krissy wore it well

Smallest Color Runner EVER!

My new favorite photo!

sitting on towel to hopefully save the car seats

The aftermath

Monday, April 8, 2013

We embraced the SUC

I am embraced the SUC, the first annual Springfield Urban Warrior Challenge. It was definitely the most intense and fun race I have ever been a part of. After 11 weeks of training, I was definitely prepared but it was still super tough. It was a 12.4 K (7.7 miles) with 15 obstacles throughout Missouri State Campus, Fasnight Park, Jordan Valley, Downtown Springfield and Phelps Grove. I joined a team of a few coworkers (Dave, Hugo and Lauren) and our new friend from the SUC training class Julie. Besides a little soreness in my legs I feel pretty great today, I have a lot of bruises on my arms and wrists but overall I survived pretty unharmed! I feel very blessed that my family came out to support me and I could see them cheering me on at most of the obstacles. I honestly couldn't have done this with out their help over these past few weeks with training. Thanks guys! I hope to do it again next year and hopefully on a team with my husband who hope to compete as well!
My Favorite Obstacle: the 1 mile pitch dark run through the underground tunnel. We used headlamps but it was very dark and wet.

My Least Favorite/Most challenging Obstacle: it was a tie between the 40 pound sandbag carry up & down the parking garage and the monkey bars.

The Individual Results:
Finishing Time: 1 hour 59 minutes 57 second
Overall Place: 110th out of 338 total competitors (87 women, 251 men)
Female Place: 12th out of 87
Female Age Place (30-29): 8th out of 39

all results here: https://www.ozarkraces.com/results/default.aspx?event=20372&r=4967

Here are a ton of pics our wonderful supporters took while cheering us on.