My first 5K

You guys, I am not a runner.

Truly.  I'm really not.  

But.  I do need to workout (don't we all?) and I am cheap.   Running is nearly free and pretty fast, too.  I can just head out for a quick 10-30 minute run and that's a really great workout.  

My friend, Katie, and I signed up for our first 5K on May 5th (Cinco de Mayo!) as a goal.  

I truly wanted to run more often than I did during training.  I ran an average of once per week for 7 weeks leading up to the race.  That's... not that great.  Three times a week is a good goal.  

I ran my first 3 miles six days before the race.  Then I ran another 3 miles two days before the race (big mistake.  I should have been tapering and resting that week.)

Anyway, the morning of the race I was really excited and a little nervous.  I could do it, for sure- I mean I have been through childbirth twice so basically I can do anything ;-) but I wanted to do really well.

Owen also had a "race".  It was a kids' half-miler.  Sweet guy.  He had a lot of fun!

Dylan was along for the ride.

Here is Katie and me at the starting line....

And here are the results.

(Katie's in a different age group)

I finished 11th out of about ~115 people in my age group.  I finished 55th out of over 550 in the entire race.  I ran 8:43/mile.  I'd also like to note that our first mile time was 10 minutes so the following 2.1 miles were an average of 8:07/mile.  That's... kinda fast.  I'm REALLY proud of myself.  My goal was to finish in under 30 minutes.  I demolished that goal.

Free beer?  Okay.

I'm not sure when/if I'll run another 5k, but this was very fun and I feel pretty awesome about how well I did :-)