24:47
Well well well… it’s been a little while since I last posted BECAUSE I got a little discouraged. I was so focused on training and my family life going at a zillion miles an hour I just felt like something had to give. And that something was this. Sorry about that. Things here are still super busy, but with the Mudder right around the corner I wanted to keep up to date with training so at the very least I can look back at how much I have accomplished this summer.
2 weeks ago I ran a local 5-K. It was super small and raining really hard up till 5 minutes before race start. I was in my car freaking out that I would have to run without headphones/music because it was too wet out. Thankfully the rain stopped and I had my music. I would be okay without it, I just never train without music so it would be like entering a foreign land.
As I was walking to the starting line I saw a reflection of myself in the school window and I remember thinking, “what the heck am i doing here? i don’t look like a runner. i’m not made for this.” I can be so hard on myself sometimes.
I had been told by a friend who ran this course in 2009 that it was pretty flat and there would be pizza at the end. So that was exciting. All I could think was, “PR. Followed by pizza. Awesomeness.”
Mile 1 held true to word and was pretty flat. I ran it in about 7:20.
Mile 2 the rolling hills started. This was NOT what I would call a flat course! 8:32
Mile 3 (+.1) finished the rolling hills and went back to repeat part of mile 1’s path. 8:51
When I rounded the bend at mile 3 and saw the finish line & the big digital clock ticking UNDER 25 I was SO PUMPED. I have been training SO HARD for a sub-25 minute 5K and to think it could actually happen was kind of a big deal to me. So I kicked it out and finished in 24:47. I was so proud. And it really got me thinking – if the race really had been flat… could I have hit a 23-minute time?
The other surprise was there was no pizza. I don’t know if it was because of the rain or because things change year to year, but no pizza. And the bananas were so green they were actually crunchy. Gross. But nothing could hinder my joy though of breaking under 25 minutes AND getting a new PR.
So I’m standing by the crunchy banana booth and a girl walks over for a snack and I notice she too is wearing ProCompression socks!!! I had chosen black for the race, she was in neon pink! So I said, “nice socks :)” and we got to chatting. Turns out she’s a mother runner and lives about 25 minutes from me. We have a tentatively scheduled run date planned for some future weekend. Also turns out that I placed 2nd in my age group – and she placed 1st. I chalk it all up to our awesome socks.
So all in all a great race.
Aside from that, I’m still in 2/day workout mode 4 days a week getting ready for the Mudder on the 24th. I’ve begun attempting monkey bars (which I should have started trying to do months ago) but better late than never. That’s really the only obstacle I think I’m going to have troubles with. More about that next time.
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