The Sun Run is the unofficial start to spring in Vancouver, a 10 km race that regularly has between 30-50k participants. Justine had registered with her company team and for whatever crazy reason, on Thursday I signed up too. I haven’t run in over a year and neither of us trained for the run. Despite those factors and the pouring rain, there we were at the start line on Sunday morning…

We were in the starting corral, jammed in with 35,000 other people. The weather sucked!

Looking forward to the start line.

Despite the weather, we were ready to run!

Post-race in BC Place.

Post race we were wet and tired but in pretty good spirits.

I ran with Jus the whole way doing 10 minute runs and 1 minute walks (with a few exceptions). Considering neither of us had done any training (and I hadn’t run in over a year) our time of 1:11 seemed pretty good. It would have been much better if the weather had cooperated, but it was fun to have gotten back out to do a run.

Vancouver Spring Flowers

We’re in the middle of the full spring bloom, so I thought I would share a few spring flowers.