Amy's Blog

I try to sign up for a local charity run about once a month.  So far this year, I have done the Trolley Run (4miles) The Mothers Day Run, Jazz in the Woods Run, Rock the Crossroads, Head for the Cure, and the Royals Charities (all 5ks).  The runs are always a lot of fun. 

The Royals Charities Run benefited Autism Alliance and took place at The K this morning.  This was the perfect day for a run.  I woke up well rested and the weather was beautiful. By the time I made it out to the stadium (a little later than I had hoped) it was 55 degrees and sunny with a very light breeze. I woke up on time, but had a hard time finding my running tights, so was a bit delayed getting out to the stadium.  I headed toward the end of the starting line and the gun went off at about 8:00.This morning’s race crowd was very laid back and easy going.  I had no problem keeping a steady pace and staying out of the way of other runners.  There were quite a few walkers as well. The course went around the K and all around Arrowhead. I was able to get some great views of the new Arrowhead. It looks really awesome. I’m really excited to check it out again at Opening Day on September 13th.  

The finish line was inside the stadium at home plate.  It was really cool. They had several photographers snapping pictures of the runners, and a view of the finish was on the jumbo tran.  There were several supporters cheering people on in the stands.  I ran alone, but was able to find someone to take  a picture of me with the stadium seats in the back ground.  

Several Royals partners sponsored the event. The after party was sponsored by Wells Fargo. HyVee did quite a bit of the catering.  The food spread was the most amazing food spread that I have ever seen at a 5k run.  They had freshly grilled hot dogs, chips, yogurt, sports drinks, smoothies, meat, cheese, and fruit trays, granola bars, fresh fruit, donuts, and probably more stuff that I can’t remember.  I grabbed a bottle of water and a chilled, crisp gala apple and headed on a walk around the stadium. 

There were several things that I saw while on the course that I wanted to take some pictures of, so I did a nice cool down walk and snapped a few photos. 

This was definitely the most fun 5k race that I have participated in and I hope to run again next year.  If  I get everything accomplished today that I need to, I plan to head back out to the K to watch the Royals take on the Tigers. Everyone that participated in the 5K run or 1 Mile Fun walk/run received a free ticket to this evening’s game.   There were also a lot of other really cool items in the race day packets two nice t-shirts, a baseball cap, a souvenir timing chip, and a few other things.