Frosty’s 5k (Surf n’ Santa 10 miler)

Good afternoon! I hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday morning.  Can you believe we’re nearly halfway through December!?

To celebrate the holiday season in my own crazy way, I participated in Frosty’s 5K last weekend (Dec. 3rd).  They just started the Surf n’ Santa 10 miler last year, but I haven’t been trained for it either year.   Luckily they added the 5k this year so I did get to participate.

In our reusable race bags, we got this technical t-shirt and a Santa hat.

I got to the race early enough to pick up my race packet and drop it back at my car with enough time so I wasn’t stressed, but not so much that I got anxious or cold.

I took some time to snap photos…

I wanted to PR this race so I made sure everything was in order the night before.  Garmin charging, clothes laid out, etc., etc.

Despite this, my Garmin died just a couple of minutes in, and with it my hopes of PR’ing.  I guess it got knocked off the charger at some point during the night.

Look! Both feet off the ground!!

There wasn’t anything too exciting about the race course.  It started outside the convention center and ended INSIDE the convention center.  It was at the oceanfront, but we never went on the boardwalk, which was fine with me.  It would have been windy and chilly this time of year.

Towards the end, I focused on a girl with a t-shirt that said “ODU Crew Team” and focused on staying with her and maybe passing her.  I didn’t think it was going to happen, but she ended up stopping to walk with just over a tenth of a mile to go!!!  I win, I win!!

I ended up finishing in 30:15…only about 20 seconds shy of a PR.  If only I’d had my Garmin.

Sweet race medal, though!!!!

Saturday ended up being a day filled with all kind of Christmas fun because after resting up post-race, I met the girls at Sara’s for a Lia Sophia party and then headed to Amore for dinner and an ornament exchange.

Check out the awesome ornament I got from Betsy!!  A flapper girl!  I’ll show a closeup soon when I post pics of our Christmas tree and my favorite ornaments.

And, of course, a group shot with Santa who also happened to be having dinner that evening.

All in all, a great start to the holiday season!! Can’t wait for more parties and celebrations!

How about you? What are you looking forward to this holiday season?

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