Saturday we ran the Contraband 5 miler, it's run in conjunction with the Contraband Days Pirate Festival. I was actually surprised that we were the only runners dressed in anything pirate related. There were a few pirates there from the festival and they wanted to take a picture with us, it was pretty cool!
The race started at 8am and the course ran along the Calcasieu River, it was stunning! The homes as well as the boat houses along the way were amazing. All of the boats had pirate flags flying in honor of the festival and there were a ton of people out cheering us on. The humidity was out of control that morning, 89% to be exact and running along the water didn't help either.
One of my only complaints was that along the 5 mile course there was only 1 water point, not a good idea when it's so humid out.We were both soaking wet by the time we finished, however they had pizza and beer at the end so we were happy lol.
I still managed to gain a PR, it wasn't by much but hey I'll take it haha. We had a great time running this race and I'm sure we will participate next year as well.
My next race is a 5k this weekend but that will be run solo since Kyle will be working.
We spent the rest of the weekend running errands and working on school, only 2 weeks left of these classes! Eeek!! :) Oh and some baking happened:
Chocolate cupcake with chocolate ganache filling and peanut butter buttercream! YUM!
Hope you all had a great weekend!
PS: Come back tomorrow for a very special giveaway post!!! :)
We spent the rest of the weekend running errands and working on school, only 2 weeks left of these classes! Eeek!! :) Oh and some baking happened:
Chocolate cupcake with chocolate ganache filling and peanut butter buttercream! YUM!
Hope you all had a great weekend!
PS: Come back tomorrow for a very special giveaway post!!! :)
Those cupcakes look absolutely delicious! Congrats on your PR :)
ReplyDeleteWay to PR, lady! I hate when races don't have enough water stops, it makes the run tougher than it needs to be. Love all the pirate stuff and that cupcake looks amazing!!!!
ReplyDeleteThat cupcake looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your PR! Awesome! :) And oh my goodness - that cupcake looks and sounds so good! I wanted to bake yesterday so badly but didn't have ingredients and was too lazy to go to the store... haha!
ReplyDeleteGood on you lady! I have taken a leave of absence from running bc its so humid here! Well done on your PR!
ReplyDeleteThat cupcake is haunting me!!!
ReplyDeleteThat cupcake looks awesome! Good job on the PR!
ReplyDeleteToo bad no one else got into the theme. :( Oh well! Great job on the PR and send me a cupcake! ;)
ReplyDeleteThat cupcakes looks delicious, even though I really don't like peanut butter (here, I said it!) :-) This race sounds really fun! My running buddy from the Erlangen Night Run 2 years ago told me about a 5k she did where the runners were passing out one by one because they didn't have any water stations along the track and it was really hot and dry that day. Maybe you should write an email to the organizers so they can plan for more water points next year!!
ReplyDeleteYay for the PR! You are awesome!!! You definitely deserved that cupcake!
ReplyDeleteWhat a bummer that no one dressed up! It looks like yall got into the theme though ;) so much fun
ReplyDeleteI'll just skip the race and go straight for the cupcake ;]
ReplyDeleteA weekend spent baking is never a bad thing. Scott would not be happy with me if I made us wear theme shirts and no one else had theme shirts on lol.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are the cutest!! I'm not a runner, but I know that only 1 water stop in 5 miles sounds terrible! It's actually making me kinda thirsty jsut thinking about it..
ReplyDeleteDefinitely some good baking going on there. ;) And that's crazy that there was only one water stop.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the PR! I'm shocked they only had one water station. That just is asking for disaster.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the PR! That cupcake looks delicious! Do you think you can send a few my way? :)
ReplyDeleteYour baking is the only thing that tempts me to try running again ;) what a fun event!
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