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I just bit the bullet and signed up for my first official 5K race. I haven't been running much the past couple of weeks, what with twice-weekly spin classes, swimming on Monday mornings, running errands on the bike on Fridays... Went out and did 2.5 miles pretty easily yesterday morning (I felt totally fine, could have easily kept going for a while, coming into the last quarter mile, at which point I decided to kick it into high gear just for fun), though I did not stretch sufficiently afterwards so my hip is sore today. The sore hip is just from running; the sore quads are from the sprint at the end.
Just out of curiosity, I looked at the top 5K times for local women in my age group. Times range from 20:32 to 21:28. To which I say DAMN! World record is 14:11.15. Just TWENTY MINUTES faster than me. No big deal. ;^) My goal for the race is to run the whole thing. I figure if it's fun maybe I'll do it again and try crazy things like going faster than I have previously. The challenge of this one (besides it being my first race ever) is going to be that it is on a weekday evening, when I will have been home with TRex all day so I will possibly be a bit tired to begin with. Oh well, it's the one that fits our family schedule best.
Just out of curiosity, I looked at the top 5K times for local women in my age group. Times range from 20:32 to 21:28. To which I say DAMN! World record is 14:11.15. Just TWENTY MINUTES faster than me. No big deal. ;^) My goal for the race is to run the whole thing. I figure if it's fun maybe I'll do it again and try crazy things like going faster than I have previously. The challenge of this one (besides it being my first race ever) is going to be that it is on a weekday evening, when I will have been home with TRex all day so I will possibly be a bit tired to begin with. Oh well, it's the one that fits our family schedule best.
