Friday January 1st, in addition to being the first day of the year and the new decade, was also a one year anniversary for me, that of my first race ever. This year I ran this race, the Resolution Run, co-sponsored by our running group’s sponsor, Athletic Performance, again. The race started and also ended with a lap on the Los Gatos High School track.
When choosing what to wear for the race I paid homage to the two marathons I had run, wearing a in training shirt for my first marathon, the San Francisco Marathon, and the Tiffany necklace from my second, the Nike Women’s Marathon (also in San Francisco).
One of of the things I love most about this five mile race is the beautiful scenery. Here is one of the first spots in which we run through a lush forest like area.
Though I prefer running longer races to challenge myself more, I enjoy seeing all the athletes of all sizes, ages, abilities and types run these races. With paved or trail areas for most of the course, athletes wearing track shoes, sneakers, running shoes of all kinds, pushing strollers, even one on crutches, gave it there all for this race.
We were not the only people out on this fine day, we were joined by dog walkers and cyclists as well.
The course was changed a bit from last year. The last hill (the one I’ve jokingly referred to as the “Wow, why am I running this race?” hill when people ask me about the race), was substituted with one that was trail instead of paved, yet was less steep overall. Here’s the new last hill of the race.
The course was just so beautiful all the way through.
This is the top of the last hill, a scene we did not see last year, so glad they changed the route.
I had a spectator take a photo of me near this great under bridge mural. The race was a great overall success. We had many more people than last year (so much so that they even ran out of goodie bags). That aside, it was a wonderful day and great way to celebrate my anniversary.
by Danielle Stolman
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