So you can see from the chart that I initially missed the first two weeks of training, but that was because I started training only 6 weeks out from the 5K. As for week 4 and 6....well, I got pretty sick one week, and flat out ran (or didn't run) out of time the other week. Needless to say, I was worried I wouldn't do as well or better than the last race, although my times always got faster and faster. Here's a side by side.
As for the race, I picked a local 5K that benefited Carpenter's Shelter, which is a local homeless shelter here in the DC area. It was a really good set up event, a 10K, 5K, and 1 mile fun run all in one. We got sweet wick-away purple T-shirts, which was pretty nice. It was brrrr cold, but I had recently purchased some new runnning gear. I wore a long sleeved warm/moisture wick shirt, a t-shirt on top of that, long tight running pants, and shorts over that. I wish I had worn thin gloves that would stop the wind from whipping my hands, but lesson learned.
The route was straight out and back, but had a hill (in the form of an overpass) we had to go up and over. I felt like I was running super super slow because of all the runners starting at the same time, the hill, and the windy cold. As I hit the turnaround, I was in the top 50 or so to do so, so the route really cleared out as the 10K runners kept going and I got some distance from the 5K pack.
As I was coming in, I couldn't remember if I ran the last one in 25:37 or 26:37. Since my only goal was to beat the previous tiem, I was freaking out a bit, cause I knew I wasn't going to beat 25:37. I just pushed as hard as I could, and, as you can see, ended up with a 26:03 which I discovered WAS faster than my last race. Overall, I was 51st out of 335. The top female finished at 21:11, so I have a ways to go, but it was a fun event, for a great cause, and I felt fantastic afterwards!!
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| I need to bring someone to take photos of me! |
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