Women's Fitness Celebration

This morning we got up early for a Saturday morning and headed to downtown Boise to participate in the St. Luke's Women's Fitness Celebration. Start time was 8:30 & Les dropped us girls off at about 8. We ended up close to the front, which was good! There was so-o-o many people! Over 12,000 women running/walking/strolling!!

I need to thank Shauntel (my boss) for suggesting that all of us in the classroom do this otherwise I probably wouldn't have done it. After all we've lived here for 15 years and this is the first time I've done the walk. It's been going on for 17 years (I think...). Anyway, a teacher at the middle school also had a group going for the Kuna School District. Sept 11th was the deadline to sign up on-line & we all talked about it alot but never did anything about. The girls really wanted to do it with me, so I wanted to sign us all up anyway. Well, I spaced it! Woke up at 12:30 AM on the 12th and went "Oh no!!" Thankfully, the site you register through was on Pacific time and I was able to get us registered at 11:44pm on the 11th!!! Whew! I could have still registered us all downtown, but it would have cost a few bucks more.

There are different waves to sign up for: competitive run, fitness walk (both timed) two waves for non-competitive run or walk (must be the most popular) and a family/stroller/wheelchairs. We did the non-competitive walk, timed it ourselves, and did it in an hour & 4 minutes. Not too bad - Brianna & I can usually walk a mile in 15-18 min., but that is just us on the sidewalk, not 1,000's of other women around us all walking different paces! We had fun, it was a great walk and a beautiful morning for it. I guess last year it was pouring rain the morning of the walk!