Yesterday my mom and I attended the Dallas Marathon 6.4k Kickoff event. (6.4k because it was hosted by Miller 64. Weird distance, right?) It was billed as being walker-friendly with live music and food trucks. How could we say no? The “race” (it was untimed, does that still make it a race?) was along White Rock Lake.
Can you see the Dallas skyline across the lake?
It was a gorgeous day and not too hot (which isn’t always the case in Texas in May). The event was sold-out, but it was capped at 500 people (I think) so it wasn’t too crazy or crowded. We were able to get our bibs and shirts and hang out without too much fuss prior to the start of the race.
At 7pm, the DJ led a countdown, and then everybody took off. Since Mom and I were walking, we started toward the back and went at the speed that felt right to us.
We were only a mile in when we saw the leader already heading back toward the finish. He was going super fast, but he didn’t look like he was hurting or anything, as if Ludicrous Speed is his normal pace. Not to mention, the next runners were pretty far behind him.
Right about 2 miles in, we hit the turnaround point and headed back toward the start/finish. There were a few other walkers, but the ones behind us were pretty far behind and the ones ahead were mostly too far ahead to catch. There was one girl we had our eye on that we wanted to pass, but she picked up the pace toward the end and we couldn’t do it. Ah well. It was fun trying.
Our stats:
- 4.02 mile finish time: 1:05:21
- Average pace: 16:15
I love doing races with my mom! We talked, talked, talked the whole time. I’m sure I exhausted my mom with all my talk about school/work, my husband, my life! Ha! Thanks for listening, Mom!
We wanted to hit up the food trucks after the race, but they weren’t really speaking to us. We decided that we wanted something from a truck but probably not dinner. We ended up getting ice cream sandwiches from the Coolhaus truck.
You chose your cookie and your ice cream. (Mix and match food – my fave!) I had a potato chip and butterscotch cookie with vanilla ice cream. Mom got an oatmeal cookie with balsamic fig and mascarpone ice cream. (No joke!) We both thought our selections tasted good but disappointingly normal. The flavors were more muted than we expected.
Yes, those are pieces of potato chips in my cookie!
After we ate our ice cream, it was time for dinner. (Isn’t that how it should always be?) My mom treated to sub sandwiches from The Great Outdoors (my all time favorite sub place) and then we parted ways. Not a bad way to kick off the fanfare for the Dallas Marathon and certainly not a bad way for me to kick off my summer!*
Yum I love food trucks! Sorry your ice cream wasn’t great though
If you’re ever in Austin, you should hit up some of their trucks…they have the best!
I would love to do that! Austin has the best food, hands down!*
So cool that y’all did that!! Didn’t work for us this month since we were doing hills on Thursday’s with our running group! Glad y’all had fun and those ice cream choices sound ca-razy! How’d the potato chips in the cookies taste?? Or was that the part in your’s that was really muted?
It just tasted like a regular old cookie. I thought there might be some sweet and salty kind of thing going on, but it’s just your basic sugar cookie. It was good, just not the spectacular that I was expecting.*
That makes us sad for your cookie samich! Do better cookie samich makers!
How can a place offer balsamic fig and mascarpone ice cream and have it NOT be amazingincredibleoooomg?!? That’s just wrong.
Also, where did this foodtruck thing originate? It’s definitely not a PA thing. Do I need to come to Texas to experience all that is foodtruck eats?
I want to try that ice cream truck! We have ice cream places here that offer all kinds of whackadoo flavors, but not with strangely flavored cookies!
Sounds like a wonderful race and great quality time spent with your mom! Sorry to hear that those ice cream sandwiches tasted so normal, I agree with you that based on the flavors I would have thought they would be incredibly unique. But, your ice cream sandwich still looks muy delicioso. =D
I love ice cream sandwiches like that. There was a place near the dorms where I went to college that had them for $1. So good… so no helpful to my waistline…
So fun! I love that you and your mom do races together. And food trucks can be so fun. That ice cream sandwich looked amazzzzing!