Downtown Dog Dash

On Saturday my husband and I and our two dogs did a 5K. That was the first time that all 4 of us had done a race together and the first time that the Black Lab had ever done a race. My husband ran with our energetic, young and in shape Black Lab. I ran with our energetic, aging and out of shape Golden Retriever. I've ran with him before. He doesn't know how to pace himself so he goes all out at the beginning and pulls me, which helps me, but I can't keep up with him, so I make him slow down. We alternated walking and jogging, because I still haven't worked myself back up to jogging a full 5K. The last quarter mile or so he was pretty tuckered out and was trailing behind me while I jogged. We didn't place or anything, like that, but it was SUPER fun to be out and about with so many people and their dogs! Our time was 45:06.68.

My husband, on the other hand, did place. THAT is why he runs with the other dog. We run with the dogs that match how in shape we are. LOL! His time wasn't stellar, but it was good enough of a second place medal for his age division. He's only done 3 races (since we've been married anyway) and medaled in all of them.

We all got shirts, even the dogs. They have never had shirts before. Here is a pic of them back at home, wearing their shirts. They say "sit happens". They both have the largest size shirt, but you can tell that one of them could have used an even larger size!



The other great thing about the race was that the dogs got microchipped there! Woo hoo, I've been meaning to do that for a LONG time!