run report
September 14th, 2009
I ran a 5k Saturday. I’d post a photo of my awesome shirt here, but for some reason I can no longer get photos onto this site. I used to be able to! It’s on facebook tho, so friend me if you haven’t already and you can see the jogging weenie shirt from the SAUSAGE FEST 5K. Yep. That’s right. SAUSAGE FEST.
The good news: finished the race and did not die.
The bad news: was purple when i finished the race and almost died.
Time: 37:03. Goal was 36:00.
I hit the 1 mile mark at 12:31, which was slow but. After that, there weren’t anymore mile markers! There was a guesstimate at halfway, which turned out to be wrong. Which freaked me out. Because I had been running for 21 minutes when someone says “you’re halfway!” UM? What? Thankfully they were wrong.
Not much to report. I ran. Slowly. The entire thing. Except for at the faux-halfway water station, where I walked long enough to drink my dixie cup of water, and then resumed the jog.
I was planning to start increasing my mileage to do a 10k in two weeks, but turns out the 10k is on the same day as DD10’s all day dance competition. So that’s out. But I am getting back on my training plan to increase my mileage. Problem is, I apparently need a hard and fixed goal in order to stay on track. So I’ll start scouting out other races.
Have a good week, Chicks!
September 14th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Congrats on the race! I just read your ‘About’ page. I’m from New Orleans too, living just outside of LA (but moving up the coast as I write) and the people here are nothing like the people back home. My house was built in 1918–just bought her because she is so New Orleans and DH and I laughed, since only people from there get what that means, especially when you are eating potato salad (homemade) out of the bowl with dust, debris, and gutted housing all about.
Love the Sausage 5K–there was a race back home where you ran from bar to bar, up St. Charles, then across Carrolton, then down Canal, drinking all the while (and I’m sure eating as well!).
September 15th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Great job! I bet the shirt is great!
September 20th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Super, glad you finished, and only 1 minute off.
I like the idea of a 10k goal, but it sounds like 2 weeks was a bit close for any kind of training plan anyway?? Hopefully they’ll be something else coming up that you can do & enjoy.
September 22nd, 2009 at 2:32 am
hey tiny! im back to c25k! how the heck do i go from week 5 day 2 to week 5 day 3! day 2 was SO hard from me! i dont know HOW to do day 3! help!