135 to the House

This race began at the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald's House

This was also the first race I ran after having my seizure and very few knew I had ever had one.

We also did fund raising for the valley's Ronald McDonald Houses we ran between.  

This photo is all the teams at the beginning of the race.  This is at the Bakersfield Ronald McDonald's location.

 This is me finishing my first leg of the race in Wasco area.  I was the first finisher of this leg of the 135 miles, we each had 3 legs of around 5.5 miles.  Then we all ran the last leg of the race.  At this point in time each group of 4 ran then the next group ran, we got way behind doing this so then two groups went at the same time and had two trail cars.  On this leg since it was hot I needed to refill my water but the others since they were cooler I did not anything not on me while running.

This was the ending of the race at the Ronald McDonald House in Madera.  

This is all of the teams at the end of the race.  The whole 135 miles took about 1-1/2 days to run.  There was very little sleep on the trip, we were all so tired but happy to be done and memories that will last a life time.  

This is what we lived in and how we transported our team and when dogs were chasing the 4 we were watching run and supporting while they ran jumped on board in order to get away from them.  

This is me at the end of the race after eating I am now an official BNB or Bad News Bear #234 and can get BNB gear at the time we have money in order to do so.  To become  a BNB you have to run 20 miles and talk with BNB athletes while at the event or before and after the event.  They are only counting runs for 2015 for me because last year I was just finding out about what BNB's are like.  

The was the shirt we got along with a metal.  In Bakersfield, they gave us sack with RMH on them but someone took mine I guess since it was not there when I was packing up after the whole thing by Jeff..

Over all this was a fun race and one I would do again in a team.  I only got to go to one meeting before the race and there were 4 I think but so far from them in Auberry instead of Clovis definitely complicated some of the fundraising events they held and much was done in person.  Each team was responsible for raising $1000 for the houses however they felt was the right way to do so.  Our team had a tough time deciding on our name, the one that stuck was The Honey Jars.  It is basically our first names squished together (We had two Alex R & G., Ruth, Rochelle, Rachel, Adolfo, Juan) 

Update 10.21.15

It had been a while since I had written in anything on the blog.  The last night of July I had a
seizure at night around 2AM.  Since then, I have not done any races even though I had planned
on more of them.  My drivers license was suspended do to that seizure.  I had paid for more
half marathon that I wanted to run this year but I could not find a ride to it since hubby was
out of town on a fire strike team and no one would give me a ride.
At this point in time, I am on medications to keep seizures away but so far my license is still suspended.  I go to the doctor again in November and will be asking how long it is that he wants me not driving for safety reasons.  I have not had another seizure but could both on medications and not on medications.  I do not want to have another one and how I felt with like after the seizure.  Until the medications, my mind was very confused, the medications have made me feel more like I did before the seizure.  I am not sure how I will be after I get off of the medication.
Right now my runs are extremely slow and short runs.  I am working on that, but at the same time, I am giving my body some rest since I was pushing myself a lot when I did have the seizure.  

Soul2Soul summer series #3 6.23.15 - Theme Hawaii Nights

I wanted to run the series but life got in the way, the air quality certainly did not help.  

66 Janet Chung 1919 F 3 33:16.12 10:44/M

Those are my results, I was number 66 out of 199.  Not bad I think.

I was in the 3rd division not sure what that meant.

I finished at 33:16.12  which was a 10:44 pace, that is at least 10.something not 13. something.  

This is what I got not official, but I like my results more.  I did not take any other photos of this race.  I did not do any more of the series, but this was hot and some fun.  

Puppy Run 6.11.15

This was my 2nd virtual race

My finishing times and pace.  I did stop and talk with a neighbor of sorts so that did slow me down

some she just wanted to meet my dog.  Of course he came with me.  

The swag for this race was pretty great.  Buddy bear loved it all.  

He is my running buddy who almost always runs with me.  

This is one of my first races with my Garmin Forerunner 15.  I was still figuring it out how to get 

the information out of it.  This is what I was doing at the beginning.  I did not figure it out for quite a while

Pi Day 5K 3.14.15

This was virtual race, my first and I did enjoy it.

I did work to get 3.1 miles, I ran short according to Nike+.  I ran around in my yard.

I bought myself a pie on pi day just because I could at a local store.  This is Huckberry pie that I could buy as a single piece on pi day.

Finished in 40:57 minutes per Nike Running app

Ole - 5 - Que 5.15.15

This is a Cinco De Mayo race that was at Woodward Park

place 40-49        Name               town     Bib#   Age  Overall  Time      Pace
     6               Janet Chung        Auberry  320     42    74         32:52.48 10:36/M
I was 6th place in the women who are 40-49 Not 6th place over all.

This is the shirt for the race  

This is my badge and medal for the race

I did enjoy this and met a lot of new people.  This was the first time this race was offered so it needs 

some work to make it great but it was a fun race.  I did not drink with this, but the metal

is a bottle opener for those who do.  I find that funny.

Hollywood Half Marathon 4/11/15

The Hollywood Half Marathon was a very tough thing due to what happened the night before the race where we got the van towed away from where we had parked it when we went to dinner.  Then we used the money that saved for the hotel to pay for the van's return with all of our stuff for the race.  We slept at a friend of my friends home went to bed around 2AM and got up at around 4AM since the race began at 6AM and the roads would be closed and we couldn't get to the race. I was number 1563 and finished in 2:23:10.  I was just so mentally worn out I struggled more than I should have.  Next time I run this I will drive myself there to run it.  My pace wasn't too bad since I ran it at 11:37 pace.  I was number 2062 of the finishers, my friends I went with were over 3 hours, so I had to wait for them.  I was so tired I just wanted to leave them but did not drive so that was not possible.

This was before the race, when I was still awake 

They sent me this after the results were in.  At least I did not give up and just walk the whole thing.  

California Classic 2015

I ran the California classic on 3/15/15 just two weeks after running the Heavenly Half marathon.

The good news is due to the craziness, I am now a Half Maniac officially.  This race was almost entirely flat.  The heavenly half was not!  I thought I was totally recovered, I guess I was not.  I got the worse stomach cramps around mile 6. I was hanging with the 2:10 group until then which was good but there I stopped to go to the bathroom in the port - a potties and ended up with the 2:30 group for a while.  Then for the second half of the race I tried to catch back up the 2:10 group which I never did since I passed the finish with the 2:20 group.   The day was very warm, The air quality was not very good either.  I did have to use my inhaler sometime around mile 8 since I couldn't stop hyperventilating   

511	2130	Janet Chung	Auberry	CA	42	Female	2:20:08

 I got place 510 of 1187 people who ran the half marathon.  Still in the earlier half. I was number 22 out of 94 women between 40 and 49.  

This run did not give away photos and I can't take the photos they got.  None of my friends got a photo of me this time either so there are no photos of me on this blog post.  

I will be running more half marathons this year but I think I need to space them out more.  

This race got me into the Half Fanatics, I am number 11498 and I only paid for 2015.  I think I will get a new number 
in 2016

Next half marathon is April 11 of this year. 

Photos from the Heavenly Half 3/1/15

just me and some bears around mile 5 or 6

Me and a stranger around mile 10

Just me finally, someone captured it 

the finish me another stranger

This dog got out and ran with us for a while - this was around mile 10

This was at the end of the race.  His owner got it back and all was good, but scary for her.  

Heavenly Half 2015

with some BNB runners

Almost half of the runners before the race 

The mountain girls who train together.  

460 Janet Chung Auberry 254 42 F 2:12:13.40 10:06/M  Overall

28 Janet Chung Auberry 254 42 460 2:12:13.40 10:06/M  By Age Category

60 Janet Chung 1967 41 660 2:26:37.14 11:12/M  Last Year

This year I finished over 10 minutes faster than last year.  I also shaved a minute a mile off my pace this year.  I also went from being in 60th place last year to 28th place in my age category.  

I think the food was better last year, but the swag was still good.  Jean got 3rd place in her age category.  This year I do not hurt as I did last year but I am still uncomfortable.  I think the trainings helped.   This year I also stopped by home in order to go potty and tried to settle down Buddybear.  He wouldn't stop barking at the strangers running by though.  I did however leave my coat at home which was about 1.5 miles from the start which was at Cressman's General Store.  I did however enjoy ending at Auberry Elementary this year.  The hill getting up to Pine Ridge was tough though.  

Even though it had tough moments I did finish.

Now to prepare for more races coming up.  Lets see when they plan this for 2016.  

Today I ran the 4th Annual Birthday Got Miles 5K.  This was the second timed 5K I have done.  I was just glad that I finished before 30 minutes.  Okay it was not much faster than 30 minutes, but I finished 3.1 miles (5K) in less than 30 minutes.

22 Janet Chung Auberry 2618 42 F 12 0-99 29:53.79 9:37/M

I was thinking back to around this time last year and I knew a couple of other runners but that was it.  I had been running through emotions since I was 14 or 13.  The first race I did was early in February of 2014.  In 2014 I ran two 5K's, 1 10K, 1 half of a half marathon, 3 half marathons.   This was my first race in 2015 and I got in 22nd place (of around 100).

This was a birthday race or Miles Alexander and the money we spent goes to Poverello House in Fresno.  I have subbed for Miles and heard about this so I joined in on the 4th annual race.  

 This is Miles mom Michelle Alexander who I have run a few races with.  I am now faster than her but at the Heavenly half last year when I ran it at 11:30 pace, she was nearby the whole time.  At the end of the race, we were given a raffle ticket and the tickets were drawn at the end of the race for most folks, they drew my number.   I won a BNB inspired tie blanket.   It has paw prints on one side and the other is a green and white dog material.  I think it is about twin bed sized.

The ones putting the race on wanted a photo of me with the blanket.  This is the photo I sent them.  It is warm, no lying.  Not sure how to use it yet, but I will find a way somewhere.  

These photos were taken by people taking photos during the race, I was near many others right here so I think it was during the first mile.  

This photo was at the turn around point of the race, it shows how I looked at the point of the turn around.  I was pretty alone there but I was keeping myself close to others.  I really was having trouble keeping my running apps working during the run.  I thought that happened up here but I was still having problems down there also in 3G turf.  It must be the age of the phone now.  

I do appreciate the others driving back and forth to town in order to run is frustrating.  I like running near home since it is an area I know and know well.  I do not like having to drive just so I can run with others.  I need to work on things like that.   The air is so much better at 4500 feet than at 350 feet from sea level.  

This is the boy whose 17th birthday was celebrated with the race .

I ran the Jingle Bell run on December 13 that I realized I didn't blog on yet.  I kept waiting for photos or results.  I did find my results but never photos so I just didn't around to posting it.  This race was a 5K and 2 mile walk. It had 1503 people who ran the 5K.  It had another 1200 or so who did the 2 mile part.  The 2 mile folks were not timed so there is not a number for how many ran that.  It was cold and dry the day of the race.

These photos are at the beginning of the race while I was waiting for the race to start.  Once they started the race, there was no room to move due to bodies in the way.  I did notice that many families did this race as a family and hung out with those that they knew only.  I saw a couple of students and a few teachers as part of this.  I also saw a few that attend Northside Christian Church that I knew.  I however did run this without many friends.  I knew kind of a few others who ran this but I did not know them well enough to engage in a conversation with them.  There were three women running this from Woodward Park Baptist Church.  Also I knew two folks at an Aid Station also.  

This was my official time for the race, I didn't push myself but also did not slack on it.  I hope the next time I run a timed 5K that I can get lower than 30 minutes for the race.  It would also help if the race is not overloaded as this one was.   There were a few times that I couldn't run through a crowd of folks because they were taking up the whole road.  I do not appreciate that about some races.  They need to space out runners better so that faster runners are ahead and slower runners are in the back of the pack.  I am not sure how to do that unless you only let 200 people start every 5 minutes or so.  It's crazy when 1500 folks are all starting at the same time.  Mass craziness and the runners feel like animals being pushed through corrals .  The finish areas often feel the same even if the race area is much wider.