Pumpkin Push 2005
Jodi and I ran the 10th annual “Pumpkin Push” this morning at Seward Park. This was part of my “I’ll run up to one 5k per month” committment to Jodi the other week, and it worked out pretty well. It was a very pretty course, lots of fall leaves, view of Lake Washington, etc. I hadn’t been to Seward Park before, even though it’s only about 10–15 minutes from our house. It’s a great park, and I’m sure we’ll be back!
The race was a great time; lots of folks in costumes, etc. Since this was my “easing into organized exercise” 5k, Jodi let me decide the pace and the method of the run. We started out running a couple of minutes, followed by 1–minute walk. This is how we had done the July 4th run in Charlotte and it had worked pretty well for us. It’d been a while for me though, so after a few rounds we morphed it into “run a couple of minutes, walk a couple of minutes”, especially through the quite-steep hill in the middle of the course! We finished strong though, running the last half-mile or so to cross the finish line.
After the race, there was a fun yoyo show that we hung around for. Plus we got a pumpkin!
A Fan said,
October 23, 2005 at 2:08 am
Congratulations on a great run, Evan! I’m a big fan.
Jodi's Running Blog said,
October 23, 2005 at 2:23 am
Pumpkin Push 5k – Seattle, WA
Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » Pumpkin Push 2006 said,
October 31, 2006 at 7:52 pm
[...] Once again, Jodi and I ran the Pumpkin Push (we also ran it last year). I had forgotten how huge the hill is in the middle of the course, so it caught me a bit by surprise! I ended up doing a bit worse in my time than I had done a few weeks ago at the Salmon Days run. [...]