The NY Mini 10k! The coolest race I've ever run.

Yay! I rocked this 10K! I ran strong, felt like I was floating around the park, and *almost* met my goal. I wanted to finish in 59 or 60 minutes, but clocked in at 1:04. I'll take that! This 10k's time was waaaay better than the last and next time I'll only be stronger from all this marathon training and will be meeting my goal.


What an honor to running the 40th anniversary of the NY Mini 10K. The Mini was named after the mini skirt and was the first women's 10K held in 1972. Prior to that year, women were highly discouraged or forbidden to run---it was thought women were not built for running, that the sport might be harmful for us and of course, the running world was a boys' club. What a blast to run this race with Jen. I encouraged her to join me 6 weeks ago and man did she jump on board! Central Park is pretty hilly, especially in Harlem. A favorite memory from this was race was Jen screaming "Braveheart-style" We Got This!!!! She sounded the battle cry and a couple big-ass hills later, we owned the north end of the park.


This year's Mini was held in honor of Grete Waitz, who won the NY Marathon 9 times and the Mini 5 times. She recently passed away. Last week I learned that Grete "wintered" in my hometown of Gainesville, FL. Pretty cool. You can read more about Grete and this year's Mini here in the NY Times.

Among the 5000+ women running the Mini were two runners I really admire: Olympian Deena Kastor and trail blazer Katherine Switzer.

Here's an awesome video of Deena with my favorite foodie Mark Bittman.

Switzer was the first women to run the Boston Marathon. She entered at K. Switzer.

Clearly the men were not pleased. WTH?! Well, she finished the race. Thank you K. Switzer!


At the end of the 10K we were surprised with flowers and medals (NYRR never gives out medals at races, unless you run the NY 1/2 or Marathon)! So fun! I just LOVE my polka dotted medal!

So fun, also, to see Konjit's Godfather Yonas at the finish. I'll never run as fast as he does, but it's so awesome to share my successes with him.