I ran my 5K race on Saturday and it was AWESOME! I ran the entire race, only stopping once for water. No walking! I finished in 40:56, which was pretty much right in the middle of the pack. I can’t even tell you how great it felt, I was smiling like a total goofball the entire time (as evidenced in the race pix I saw today).
My friend A had also signed up & been training for the race, and I’m so proud of her because she did great. She’s a full-time nurse and also in school full-time, and she does all of her running outdoors (not on the treadmill like me). She has very limited time to train, but she still pulled it out & kicked some ass, running the whole thing with me. If it weren’t for her, I seriously doubt that I would have felt as good as I did throughout the race. At no time did I feel like I couldn’t go on, or even needed to stop. We kept a pretty slow pace, average was 4.6 mph or 13:11 min mile…but you know what they say about the tortoise…
I’m already planning my next race – I see how people get addicted to this. I haven’t had that much fun doing something in a long, long time and I can now officially call myself…a runner!
