Niagara Falls Marathon (5K)

SOOOOOOOO... the day finally arrived.  The Niagara Falls Marathon, 5K that I was participating in.  This past weekend it was finally time.  After my wonderful friends helped me reach my $500 goal, not only was I going to participate in the race, but I also got to go to a dinner hosted by Remember Betty and Danny Wood from NKOTB.  Even more exciting Opal and Kerry were both making the trip up! 

It was an awesome experience minus two things:  1.  I hurt my knee 2. Kerry was stuck in the US while Opal and I were in Canada :(

I am thankful for the experience, but to date I still have not been able to RUN a 5K.  This was the time I thought it was going to happen, and honestly it was the perfect venue for my first running race.  It was a pretty flat course and very beautiful.  However, my knee did not cooperate.  :(  I actually have an appointment with the orthopedic tomorrow after an Xray on Monday showed some issues.  It took us over an hour to complete the course :(  Before this race I was actually doing a 5K in around 45 minutes.  So, sadly I did not reach my goal... but we did finish the race even with my knee partially locked up. 

At the finish line we had Danny Wood and many team members waiting on us.  It was awesome.