This past Sunday me & Mom ran in our very first 5K race! It was the Petco Walk Run Wag race, and boy was it fun!!
Mom's done a bunch of these races thingies before...but this was the first one she'd signed up for that allowed those of us with 4 legs to compete in!
We signed up as part of Leash Your Fitness's team. There were 22 of us total (and that was only counting the bipeds!) You could sign up to either walk or run. Mom decided to run with me, cuz we've been running as a team for about a year now. I can go up to about 4 miles! Most of the time its not a continuous run though...Mom worries about my legs and joints. Instead, we do drills. Indian Sprints, stair repeats, hill repeats...all with a little bit of walking recovery time in between. Mom says that walking is for my sake, but I know the truth...she's the one who needs the walk break! BOL!
I missed out on the team picture cuz I was 'lightening my load'...so to speak. BOL!
Red & Blue helped kick off the even with the Star-Spangled Banner.
and then we were ready to go!!
Mom was totally lame and forgot her camera, so all these pictures came from a friend. Here we are, checkin out our race results. We had a personal record!! Then again, anything would have been a personal record since this was our very first race together! BOL!
The Leash Your Fitness team won 3rd place for the fastest group time! That was paw'some!
What a super fun day. I was wiped out when we were done and slept most of the rest of the day. An endurance athlete needs his rest!!
Can't wait for the next event! The Puppy Love Run is in February, and we've got to beat our time!!
We signed up as part of Leash Your Fitness's team. There were 22 of us total (and that was only counting the bipeds!) You could sign up to either walk or run. Mom decided to run with me, cuz we've been running as a team for about a year now. I can go up to about 4 miles! Most of the time its not a continuous run though...Mom worries about my legs and joints. Instead, we do drills. Indian Sprints, stair repeats, hill repeats...all with a little bit of walking recovery time in between. Mom says that walking is for my sake, but I know the truth...she's the one who needs the walk break! BOL!
I missed out on the team picture cuz I was 'lightening my load'...so to speak. BOL!
Red & Blue helped kick off the even with the Star-Spangled Banner.
and then we were ready to go!!
Mom was totally lame and forgot her camera, so all these pictures came from a friend. Here we are, checkin out our race results. We had a personal record!! Then again, anything would have been a personal record since this was our very first race together! BOL!
The Leash Your Fitness team won 3rd place for the fastest group time! That was paw'some!
What a super fun day. I was wiped out when we were done and slept most of the rest of the day. An endurance athlete needs his rest!!
Can't wait for the next event! The Puppy Love Run is in February, and we've got to beat our time!!
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Good job Murphy!
and look at that last photo with that regal elegant and handsome fellah in the center; i wonder who he is? ... =0P congrats on your 3rd place
Great work!
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Kari
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O that looks like so much fun, they never have anything like that here in NZ! :( We love running with our huMAN we can run pretty far!!
Congrats on your team placing 3rd, thats awesome!! Hope you can do more of them!
Licks and lots of slobber,
Lexi and Jasper the Danes
Good Job Murphy!! I found your blog from Honey and Hsin-Yi's website and we are in Northern California (San Jose) and we have a 4 month old Dane. Love the site and cant wait to see more adventures!
That's awesome! I just did my first one last year.
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