Beach Bash ~ Fri 2nd March

Signed up to do the Henley Beach Bash 2012.  Only found out about it on Monday when I was doing the beach walk with Heather so went onto the website end entered both myself and hubby after Heather said her and hubby were doing it together!  

It's only a distance of 4kms and it's either a run or a walk - hey I figure we walk 12kms on our own beach walk so 4kms should be easy!  I sign up hubby and then tell him later tee hee.  There is a fee of $10 each but that's ok as its a community fundraiser.  I sign up hoping that I will get my own number to attach to my shirt!

We register and get our numbers written on our arm so I'm dissapointed that I don't have a marathon type number for my shirt but that's ok as you can see from my pic I have a 'W' as I'm a walker.

We line up near the start and although we are in the mass of runners no doubt we don't want to disadvantage ourselfs too much from being behind the pack.  

We race off and hubby is with me supporting me all the way he helps me to find the patches of sand which are harder than others cause most of the sand is so slippery and it's really hard walking through.  Although it might only be 4kms I feel like I am working twice as hard.  Hubby works out based on our last Beach Walk PB that if we keep up the same pace then we should do this in approx 36 minutes I think cool that sounds alright I'm ready to smash it.

The more and more I walk the harder it seems to get and I see a few people passing us and when I look we are only 2kms in and already we can see the first lot of runners coming back from the first Jetty! Hmmmm ok.

I decided that it doesn't matter what time I do I just don't want to be last and I keep that little mantra up to myself, keep on swimming, swimming, swimming (well walking) and also just don't be last.

We finish with a time of 45 minutes woo hoo with hubby at my side I'm so excited.  We finish just a second before Heather and her partner and then there are 3 girls still behind us to finish.  How amazing I did it!!!  As you can see this little kid who was behind us ran straight past us - cheeky bugger (reminded me of those older ladies on the beach walk LOL)

The top photo is the offically pic that I pulled off their website. 
This picture is one that we 'set' up after the event so then hubby didn't run ahead and get a better time than me lol.  We crossed the line together although they wrote down that he was faster than me!

I smashed 601 calories for this which is also just amazing as it was hard going on that sand.  There were so many holes from where all the runners and walkers had been ahead of us and churned it all up before.

Oh and also to make this day super happy - this morning at Zumba I did a PB thus smashing 722 calories!  I'm so happy also Kylie gives me a phamplet for the other classes she runs at other locations.  I am so happy as I'm loving Zumba so to now know there are a few other classes out there I'm so happy!  It's only $5 a class too - super happy!