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April 08, 2007
Race Day
My first running race since those traumatic high school track days went pretty well. It was very cold out, with snow flurries, but Adam and I donned some long underwear ("Daddy got tights!" said Lilybug) and headed out. There were 571 people who ran the 5K course through downtown Valpo. I was a little worried about how the cold was going to affect my performance, and I was wheezing a bit with sore lungs by the end of the race, but things turned out pretty well. I got a little nervous when we started off, shuffling along in a big clump of bodies. But when I passed the race official at the one-mile mark, I heard "9:20". Not too shabby, for me at least. And that was the uphill portion of the race. I was at 18:27 at mile 2, so somehow I ran the second mile even faster than the first. My official time was 27:25, putting me at 13 out of 37 for the 30-34 female age group, 98 out of 262 for all women, and 306 out of 571 overall. Solidly mediocre, but it's a personal best and a full two minutes off my best workout time. It really was fun to run with a bunch of other people and with people at the sidelines cheering us on.
Now we're thinking about training for the 5-mile "Popcorn Panic" race in September. That would be a big goal for me; I don't think I've ever gone over 4 miles at a time. But I'm really encouraged by the results of fairly modest training for this race. We shall see...
Posted by mwashburn at April 8, 2007 10:05 AMPosted to just for fun
Comments
That's great! Congrats! Jamie and I have had a 10K on our list of things to do for a couple of years now.
Posted by: Susanne Hinson-Rieger at April 8, 2007 02:09 PM