Chrissy Renae

I ran a 5k last weekend!!! The weather has finally started warming up and running outside is actually bearable so I decided to sign up for my first race of 2010. Our little group of friends in Dongducheon is part of a larger group of friends from all over Seoul called TEAM DIRT. Its purpose is to raise money and awareness about an eye disease called Choroideremia.. sooo by running together and playing, we’re also supporting a good cause. Everybody in the group is lots of fun and it’s nice to get to know people from other areas too.

After the race we hung out at the stadium for a few extra hours waiting for the people who ran the longer stretches (like half marathon and FULL marathon!) to finish and then went out for dinner and then for a long night out in Ilsan. The picture of Clint, me, Jono, and Jon with all the Koreans is to document our winning of the red vests and volunteer badges. For some reason we decided it’d be cool to fake we were race officials, so we found random kids on the train who had been volunteers and rock-paper-scissored them for the vests and badges. I lost to my guy twice (the one about to bite the water bottle…) but he still gave me a 3rd chance to beat him-which I did. I figured it made me look more official so I had an excuse to look gross during the rest of our Seoul adventures that day.

Anyways, it was a fun race and it inspired me to get back into shape now that its spring and perhaps become a true runner. My official goal is to run a half marathon by the end of 2010… This is HUGE considering I’ve never run more than 6 miles at a time in my life. Soooo I better kick it into gear—this year is already going by fast!