Manchester City Marathon Relay Recap

Last weekend I participated in the Manchester City Marathon as a part of a relay team.   The race had 2500 runners with 600 of those runners being people who were supposed to run in the New York City Marathon.

 Here's my team....Clinton, myself in the middle and Ericka!  We had one more member but he did not stay after his leg.
 The weekend started with volunteering to help stuff the goodie bags for the race Friday night.  This was my first time actually volunteering for a race and found that it was a lot of fun!  I met some nice people and am glad I signed up.
The next day was the Pre race Expo!

 There I was able to pick up bibs and goodie bags for my team and checked out all the booths of different running related products.  I even saw a fashion show with some great running clothes being modeled by some local runners.

Later that night was pasta time!  One of the women from the running club I belong to hosted a pasta dinner and a pre race hot tub soak.  It was a small group of us that went but a good time was had by all.

Now to race day....a chilly race day.

A group of us from the club met up before the race to say good luck and for some group photos!


For my team, I ran the longest leg of the race, 8.5 miles.


My time for my leg was pretty decent!  I ran at an 11:18 pace which I was happy with....could have been better.
Overall my team finished in 4:04:18!!!  This time was good enough so we did not have to do a shot...that's a long story..ha, ha!

Here's the latest medal to add to my growing collection!  All in all it was an awesome weekend!  One that I will never forget :)