Whoa. I managed to forget to update you on my 5k! Yikes! Sorry about that friends. Well, I did it! My original goal was to finish under 35 minutes {the program assumes you can run a 10 minute mile by race day. hah!} Considering I had totally slacked off in the last two weeks of my training, I decided to forego my goal and just do my best. My new goal was to finish under 40 minutes. Well, this "flat course" had a hella crazy number of hills. They were tough!
J runs faster than I do, but I can run for longer than him. He sped right past me as we started and I figured I would pass by him in a few minutes once he started walking. I kept an eye out though and I never saw him. After about 15 minutes of running {well, and a bit of walking myself, really those hills were killer!} I was starting to get discouraged. Not that I didn't want him to do well, I just kept thinking that he was running as I was expecting him to and I was running slower than that!!!
{cool story. my number was actually 66. way to go me}
At the halfway point I checked my watch. 18 minutes. Sigh... instead of seeing that and saying, "oh that'll put me around 36 minutes, that's not bad!" I said, "geeze, that's practically 20 minutes. I'll never finish under 40." Needless to say, as I got to the last mile I realized that I must have passed J without noticing it {I did, at about the 3 minute mark} and that I was doing much better than I thought. So I pushed through that last mile and finished!
37:26
That's a pace just under 12 minutes, similar to my last reported training run. I'll take it! Thank you again for all of your support friends. I will keep you updated on my future races. I hope to keep up with running throughout the winter, but we will see!
PS - Shout out to Melissa and Taylor who ran with us! It was such a fun morning. Oh, another cool story, Taylor came in 6th overall!
Congrats on finishing!! I know it must have felt great to crush your goal of 40 mins!! I also love that you passed J without noticing it--you were in the zone! I don't know what would happen if Nate and I ran a race together haha we're both competitive so it'd probably be a horrible experience haha However I think we might be doing the Cooper River Bridge Run together so we'll see......
ReplyDeleteYay congrats on finishing with a good time! :) That's quite an accomplishment
ReplyDeleteYou rock, the end. Train with me when we live closer, ok?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I ran a 5K last Sunday and I ran it in 37 minutes too. I figure if I run the whole thing and finish it's a good day. So good for you! : )
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome, Kate! Congrats! :)
ReplyDeleteWhoo Hoo! You did it! It has been too cold for me to even think about running! So proud of you!
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