Portland's Mustache Dache - Dragging Out the Birthday Celebration

by Jodi

Post-race celebration

My 40th birthday party spanned an entire week culminating with Portland's second annual Mustache Dache 5k race on Saturday, November 15th. The Mustache Dache is "a slightly irreverent 5k" geared toward helping "Movember, the global men's health charity, combat prostate and testicular cancer."

Last year a big group of my friends from Newberg formed the Femmestache Fatales team and participated in the inaugural running of this race.  It was so fun we decided to do it again.  We ended up with a team of about twenty ladies willing to don a fake mustache and brave this super hilly course.

Portland's Inaugural Running of the Mustache Dache 5k

by Jodi

I've been in a running funk.  My legs feel heavy, my pace slow, and my lungs burn.  Just ask Carissa.  The one run we've done together in weeks was ten miles in Forest Park.  She waited and waited and waited on me as I labored up those hills.

in Forest Park

 I posted this picture of myself on Instagram after my fifth bad run in a row.  I needed a boost of confidence before I started threatening to hang up my running shoes for good.

I got that boost on November 16th when I raced the Mustache Dache 5k with my friends.