My First 5K!

Yesterday I participated in the 2nd Annual Hendrick Marrow Program Half Marathon & 5K. Now I've participated in 5Ks before but this is the first time I ran in one.

I started my "training" at the end of June. It consisted of running in the neighborhood on the days that I didn't have Boot Camp at the gym. For the most part I was running about 10 - 15 minutes which was about a mile (I found a website where I could plug in my route to find out how far I had gone). If I was only making it a mile, how the heck was I going to make the 3 mile run??

It's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it. I got to the race and got ready to go. Once the horn sounded, I was in the zone. Sure I had to walk a few times but for my first 5K I made it in 34:48. I was 93rd overall (135 participants) and 9th in my age group - not too shabby!

We saw an ad this morning on the news for a 5K in two weeks, David said "there you go, sign up for that one". I told him I needed to pace myself - although being able to nap all afternoon would be worth it.