We Did It!

Part 2 of our 2019 Saskatoon Adventure

As serious 5k walkers, we knew we had to have a strategy and ours was quite simple….DON’T FINISH LAST ! We set a blazing pace out of the starting gate and are happy to note that in fact we are not last!! So far so good! At about the halfway point we notice Mag is lagging behind and the people behind us are closing in. After Mag admits that when we thought she was at the gym training, she was actually on the couch watching reruns of Pittsburgh Steelers games, we adjust our pace and decide we have to take some desperate measures.

Nonverbal Competitive Walking

We decide to adopt Kerri’s husband’s advice and focus on passing someone who is ahead of us. We target two ladies just ahead and within a short time we pass them. Success!! We are thinking this is just the thing until they breeze by us. Back and forth it goes with nary a word spoken and by the end of the race we realize we have invented a new genre of 5k racing which we name nonverbal competitive walking. Maybe we will make it into Wikipedia for this.

Do We Really Need to Know This?

Just as Mag is revealing her unique race training to us ( the watching TV on the couch thing) Shauna starts starts complaining about her bunions hurting ( TMI???) and decides the best way to deal with it is to tell us about the challenge she has finding shoes to fit her bunions and the surgical options she has for curing them (definitely TMI).

We Crossed the Line

At last we arrive at the finish line with heads held high and arms raised. WE ARE NOT LAST!!! We proudly accept our medals and immediately head to the snack tent only to find that the 10kers have taken all the good snacks.

I’m Never Doing This Again

We check our times and find that we have marginally improved from our Edmonton 5k. We are about to blame Mag for this when she announces she is “NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN“. We decide we have to deal with this existential threat to the Sisterhood and immediately start making plans for our post race celebration. When we remind Mag that alcohol (beer in particular) and junk food are an integral part of this she concedes that maybe she will participate next year. Whew! Crisis averted!

We plan to publish a new post every Monday, so stayed tuned for part three of our Saskatoon adventure entitled “Oh The Things We Learned in Saskatoon” to see what we learned from our first Sisterhood 5k!