First 5K Race

Matine and I met our girlfriends and boyfriends, and 400 other Livingstonites for the Patricia Coleman Foundation Health Run. It was a very quaint 10k and 5k race that benefited the foundation set up by the family of the Doc (Dr. Coleman) that delivered little Matine.

I had already considered the "race" a success when I arrived ON TIME with M dressed, fed, sleeping AND a clean diaper. We met up with Melynda, Anders and Finn, Jacqueline, Emily and Sully, and Abby and Libby. We somehow managed to get past the starting line about 3 minutes after the gun went off and were at least a block behind the very last "walkers" from the get-go - but we didn't seem to care. This race wasn't about a fast time!

Anders, Melynda, Finn, Sully, Emily, Abby, Matine, Brooke, and Jacqueline

Emily and Sully, happy after their walk

The crowd gathering afterwards - what a cool community we live in!

Many of our friends and running buddies were running the 10k! Go Levia!
Next year Matine and I agreed to run the 10k with the Chariot.

The weather was perfect and it was so great to see so many families, kids and athletes out and about and participating in such a worthwhile community event.

Matine and I were LITERALLY the LAST "5k walkers" to finish! We had a hard time that last mile - she saw all sorts of people that had not met her yet and it was like walking a celebrity red carpet. We had to stop and visit with admirers and fans, showing off the new addition to the community. It was quite special. One of Matine's nurses was even at the finish line to hand her her first Blue Ribbon for the race.

The Yellowstone River was the backdrop for much of the run/walk. Right now it is VERY big (still running at over 20,000 cfs) - very muddy and you can see entire trees taken out and floating down it.

Abby and 5-year old Libby, walking the last leg!

3 hot gals and 3 little boys

Surprisingly, she was not the youngest baby in the race! She was 19 days old and there was a 15 day old there who managed to finish before us!

Beautiful day!