Partners for Life - Police Appreciation 10k Run 5-5-2013

On May 5th Jenny and I ran the Partners for Life 10k run in St. Petersburg.  This race is in memory of St. Petersburg K-9 Officer Jeffrey Yaslowitz.  We got to Downtown St. Petersburg in time to walk over to the park where the race started.  We walked around a little and prepared ourselves to run.  I had already planned to run with Jenny instead of going on ahead in hopes of getting her a PR. 

 

We lined up for the race and took off.  We had reviewed the course map for the race and expected to run on the St. Petersburg Pier towards the second half of the race, but we actually started running the Pier in the first mile.  We thought it was odd, but we went with it.  We then ran the rest of the course, but saw that the mile markers were backwards and showing the wrong distances.  We didn't think much of it though.

Since this race was in honor of a police office we took the time to thank the officers that were working on the course and they all seemed genuinely happy and appreciated the thanks we all gave them.  

The course was pretty flat and the hardest part of the course was running on the brick road which was definitely not easy on the feet and legs since it was not really level to step on, but other than that the course was great to run on.  

We finished the race in 1:23:01 which was slightly slower than we wanted, but we had a great time and we will probably run this again next year.  After the race they told us that the lead cyclist had actually led u backwards around much of the course, so that explained why we saw the backs of the mile marker signs!!