H.A.M Blog: 5K Turkey Trot

My mom is getting back in shape and has been attending a class with her friend Pat from work. This class is a free class held at the Bloomingdale Park district. She found out about it in the newspaper and has been going to this class every Sunday morning for quite a few weeks. It is taught by a chiropractor named Dr. Erin Ducat who owns her own chiropractic firm called Chiro One Wellness Center. The class is called walk to run and you gradually start running more and more, farther and farther as the class progresses. Towards the end of the class your goal is to be mainly running and not walking. My mom has been raving about the class every Sunday when she comes home from it. She has made excellent progress in the few weeks shes been taking it.
The class is over now but to finish the class off everyone participated in a 5K run. This 5k/half marathon turkey trot was held yesterday at a forest preserve in Schaumburg. I came to support my mom and take some pictures of course.
My mom and her class were all participating in the 5k run/walk but there were also people there running in the half marathon. All together they had over 2,000 people registered to run yesterday. 550 of which were there for the 5k race which is three miles long. I'm so proud of my mom for doing this, she did a great job! She ran the entire three miles without walking. Her time was 34:16:3 and for never having ran a 5k race in her life that's pretty darn awesome. She almost beat Dr. Erin to who is experienced and has been doing this for a long time. Dr. Erins time was 34:05:8.
During the race my mom caught up to Dr. Erin right as she was going to start walking a little but when she saw my mom was going to keep charging ahead she said no way. I'm supposed to be the one beating you haha.
Before the race they had chiropractors there to stretch you out and different health food and drink tents giving away free stuff. They also had a man dressed up in a turkey costume who also ran the 5k.
The Schaumburg High School cheerleaders were there also, cheering on the runners at the start and end of the race. They were also handing out metals to the runners with the best times.
In honor of Thanksgiving this 5k Turkey Trot helped everyone lose those extra pounds they put on eating all the yummy food on Thanksgiving. Now that winters coming my mom wont be able to get out and run so she'll have to break out the treadmill that's been sitting in our family room for years.

Mom and Pat