ran twice today. Here are the details:
1st run--I took my dog and went to the canal road and ran for 30 minutes straight, at an easy pace. Just tried to keep it a very easy run. It was a great day to be outside--no wind, shorts and t-shirt weather, I just really enjoyed being outside--it was about noon when I was out. We don't seem to get a lot of days like today. It seems like it's windy a lot of the time, so I'll savor non-windy days when we get them.
2nd run--the fun run. My friend Michelle White left a post on Facebook a few weeks ago about a 5K her sister was in charge of that would benefit the YWCA. She asked that any runners would try to support it. So I figured I hadn't raced a 5K in a long time and I wanted to help out Michelle and her sister, so I signed up. I was pretty sure it would be one of those small events without many speedy people there; not that that was important to me, it's just easier when there's not a whole lot of pressure to really push it. I wanted to just kind of push it. It was at 4pm. They first had a little fun 1K where people, mainly men, ran in high heels. Then the 5K. We took off, and there was a woman running with two men who took the lead, plus a couple of women. I passed the two women, so then I trailed the woman and two men. They seemed to not be really pushing the pace and I could tell they were talking to each other, so it didn't look like they were intensely racing. I trailed them until about mile 2, when I finally caught them. Then one of the men took off, and about 30 seconds later I heard steps and thought it was probably the woman trying to pass, but it was the other man. At that time I knew I was the lead woman, but had no idea how far behind me was that other woman. So from not really wanting to push the paced I knew I needed to keep at it if I wanted to be the 1st female. So I tried to run that last mile as hard as I could, finished, looked behind and there was that woman not more than 10-15 seconds behind. Then for the really good news--they gave $100 to the first man and woman, so I won some money! That was pretty exciting. I had no idea they would have money prizes. I'm glad I didn't know before the race because I probably would have panicked and blown it. It's always nice to win a race and to win some money at the same time. Next year maybe some of my group will show up if they know about this, then they can battle it out for the 1st place prize. I'm glad none of them were there today because several of them would have beaten me.
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