WAVI 5K Race Report - A Very Eventful Night!

On Friday night, my family, and my friend Amy and her daughter, Avryl, all headed up to Rapid City (about an hour from home) to run in the WAVI (Working Against Violence, Inc.) 5K. It was just a fun run with no prizes for places, but it was for a good cause, domestic violence, and there were shirts to be given out, free food after the race, and door prizes to be won. After getting our shirts and signing up for door prizes, we were off! The course was a really easy course that I have run before with no hills, but we ran the entire way on the sidewalk, which does a number on your knees. At the turn around, we were only at 1.46 miles so I knew it was going to be a short course, but that’s not a big deal in a fun run. After the half way point, it started spitting rain at us, but that felt good and then we saw a rainbow that we started running towards. I finished the race in 27:54, but it was a short course (2.93 miles) so not a 5K time. After getting some hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, and lots of water, they started the door prizes. Caiden and Chloe’s names were called right away and Chloe won a Jenga game and Caiden won a 20 Questions Sports game where you think of something and then it asks you questions and tries to guess what you are thinking. It’s right…sometimes.
After the race is when things got interesting. We go to leave, and the car doesn’t start. Chris tried to do some things, some people came over to try to help and we tried to jump it with Amy’s car, but nothing worked. So, it’s 8pm now and the kids just want to go home. So, the kids and I pile into Amy’s car and she drives us the hour home while Chris gets the car towed to the Dodge place. We get back home, I take the kids to my friend’s house so they can sleep while I go back up to Rapid to get Chris. Amy lets me borrow her car to go get Chris, which was really nice (because Chris’ truck is a stick and I can’t drive it very well!) and we finally get back home at midnight! Luckily, the Dodge place is open on Saturday and they called on Saturday morning to tell us that all we needed was a new battery, because there was something wrong with the battery internally and that was why we couldn't’t jump it. So, Saturday afternoon, we all pile into Chris’ truck, drive back up to Rapid for the 3rd time in less than 24 hours, but this time we come back with our fixed car! As annoying as it all was, it could have been so much worse so you won’t find me complaining too much!!!