Non-Scale Running Victory (NSRV)

I got the dreaded email from my 5K that my pictures were ready to view. GROAN. Let me tell you a little bit about my previous run pictures:

RACE #1: First race ever (5M Run to Remember in Boston): "We're sorry, there are no pictures of you...perhaps you should try in the lost and found pictures." (Sorted through hundreds of pictures...nothing.

My thoughts: How can there be no pictures of me when I was running at the pace of a sandwich for an hour and eighteen minutes? I saw the cameras, there were definitely no people around me, and you got plenty of pictures of the person running right next to me the entire way. CURSES! I want proof I did this!

RACE #2: First 5K, feeling pretty cocky because if I completed a 5 mile, then 3.1 should be easy-peasy, right? (Wrong) Just about the entire race was uphill, and the pictures of me were all by myself or with small children WALKING next to me (I'm not kidding, if it wasn't a copyright infringement I'd totally post them). In most of the pictures, although I know I thought I was running at the time, both of my feet were somehow both on the ground. Hmm.

My thoughts: Oh...I guess I don't look quite as much like a "runner" as I thought I did. Also, I might want to rethink that bra/tank combo. That one giant boob with the nips pointing in different directions is really not a good thing...."c'est pas pretty" as my family would say.
RACE #3: Second 5K, again with a lot of hills but at least I ran the whole thing, albeit slowly. There was ONE picture of me, and it was of the side of my arm behind someone else at the starting line.

My thoughts: Ummmm...I'm pretty sure when I "blasted" through the finish line I made sure there were no people around me and I smiled and sucked in my belly. However, despite there being only like 75 people running this race, you missed me. Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
SUNDAY'S RACE: Third 5K, more prepared and fit than I was for any of the other three races. The faces in the pictures weren't pretty, but the people around me were definitely running, and in most of them I had BOTH feet off the ground.

My thoughts: NSRV. NSRV indeed.