It's a Race... It's a Race...

9/13/2008

This morning my friend, Leslie, & I ran a 5K over by Lake Hefner. It was a small race, Race for Freedom, sponsored by Geico. I enjoyed the run, & tried really hard to pace myself & not get over excited with all the faster runners. The worst part was we parked where the website told us & we had a 20-30 minute walk (no joke,) it was a small enough race we could have parked closer. So by the time we got there we ran to get registered, then ran to get our chips & since we had a little over 5 minutes to start we ran back to get our shirts.

I knew I could do it in 36 minutes & I wanted to do it under 35 minutes & I was so close... There was a girl I was coming up on in the last few meters & was going to pass her without much of a problem & she decided to keep pace with me & the way they had us sort of funnel in to cross the finish line was a bugger... the girl was still just barely ahead of me & wasn't as excited to cross the finish line... so she was taking her sweet time. I was literally seconds over my goal & came in at 35:08. Leslie & I are going to try to do another 5k next month & there is a Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving day, which should be lots of fun. A 5k is pretty fun to run.