Sunday, July 5, 2015

Run For The Warriors (#Win)

This morning it was finally my 5k race with Hope For The Warriors! I had to leave home early to pick up my packet, and have time to take everything back to the car before needing to line up for the race. After I didn't have to wait at all to pick up my race bib and t-shirt, and had such a great parking spot that I could see the starting line from my car. I sat playing/learning Spider Solitaire on my phone waiting to line up. There was a few people waiting around. Then a few more arrived, and a few more.  I began to start to feel intimidated.  When I've run in big races, I always can spot out people who would come in after me. But, this was a small race, and I felt like I was going to come in last and the race organizers would be taking things down before I made it back.

When I get to races, I usually have two goals that are the same for every race:
1. Finish the race.
2. Not finish last.
After those two goals, I often set a time goal in my mind of how quickly I would like to finish a race, or how long I would like my running segments to be. For this race, I wanted to finish in under 40 minutes.

And, I did! I finished in just under 40 minutes. My clock time from the chip on my bib was 39:58, and my Endomondo time for a 5k distance is 39:12. Both times are under 40 minutes and that was my goal, just to come in under 40 minutes.

While it was a small race, only 154 runners, it was still a great race! It was an out and back route, but utilized the streets in downtown New Bern and there was plenty of space for runners going both directions. I would surely run another race with Run For The Warriors again!
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  1. LindaJuly 5, 2015 at 6:43 PM

    I got up at my regular running time to pep talk what I thought would be the end of your run. I was surprised to see you just started. Since it was too hot, 89.6° (close enough to my limit of 90° to not go) to go on my planned 5 mile run. I pep talked, went back to bed but not to sleep, pep talked a few more times and finally got out of bed. Congrats on your excellent time.

    No running on Saturday means this WAS my sleeping in day and I have to get up to run on Sunday to stay on schedule. Thinking about mixing up my days, same days different routes. If someone was watching me, I do the same route on the same day of the week. My favorite, a 3.1 miler, I've run 71 times.

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