Results of yesterday's 5K were encouraging. The race started at 7:00 am, so I decided to get up at 5:45, and run from my house to the race - about 3.5 miles. After the race, I would run home and count it as a decent day of work.
Fortunately, the morning was cool, about 62 F when I left the house. I took a leisurely approach to the run TO the race but when I got there, realized that I averaged about 9:15 per mile, leaving me about 30 minutes to hang around before the race.
The race itself was a small, local affair with about 400 finishers. The route took us over mainly paved trails that I have run before so there weren't any real surprises. A few hills but nothing that I hadn't run before. I got caught behind the inevitable baby strollers, friends running 5 abreast, and walkers for the first mile or so and since the route was fairly narrow, I figure I wasted at least a minute trying to negotiate my way to open running. No complaints here - these folks have just as much right to run as I do and if I was really serious, I would have wormed my way to the front. All in all, it was well organized and everyone seemed to have a good time.
I finished in 23:49, 64th overall and 4th in my age group, averaging somewhere around 7:39 per mile. A minute faster would have moved me to 50th but still 4th in the age group. Truthfully, I don't know if I would have been able to run home after running 7 minute miles, so let's not even consider woulda, shoulda and coulda.
The run home was fine, slow and allowed a pretty good recovery. No pains, no aches and no regrets this morning, either.
Running is fun again...
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