Hip Hop Run 2017

Hip Hop music + Running = Our definition of a great family outing!  A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across an ad for a Hip Hop Run in San Diego.  My interest was immediately piqued by the promise of DJs lining the course, spinning hip hop for the runners and the super cute finisher’s medal.  I checked with the family and they were all in so I signed us up for the 1/29/17 race!  If you know me, you know I LOVE a good theme.  And once I get started with a theme, there’s no stopping me!  I knew I was going to represent LL Cool J in this hip hop race…that was a given.  But who could Kali represent?  We decided on Salt N Pepa and she was TOOOOO cute!  The fact that she already knew “Push It” made it even better!  Daddy was going to be the hard one.  I knew he would not be overly happy to “dress up” and I didn’t want to push it (no pun intended) too hard, for fear he would nix the whole dress up part entirely.   He settled on Eric B & Rakim and even wore a fat gold chain! J  I was waaaaay too excited for this run!  The thought of being able to practically dance a whole 5k was sending me over the moon!  And it did not disappoint!  Kali and I were actually sick last week (and we only found out about this run 2 weeks ago) so we didn’t get much training in.  We had time to get in one 2.5 mile run two weeks ago and that was it so I wasn’t expecting great time results.  But I was wrong!  33 minutes and 30 seconds for Al & Kali and I crossed at 33 minutes and 37 seconds! I am super happy with this result because we hadn’t been training at all and we were just getting over being down with some pretty wretched colds. 

All in all, we had such a great time and I’m hoping this run will come back to San Diego next year!  ....but how ever will I top this year's costumes??

To top it all off.....the organizers of the event named us Best Dressed family!  How cool is that!?! ...and we made a cute cameo in their video ( :34 mark).