My 5k Races - Coming Full Circle

After completing the C25k program last year, I ran my first organized race on 10/29/11 (the whole story is here if you're interested: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/scapez?month=201110). It was a very surreal experience for this previous non-runner. At the end of it I cried a little.

This Saturday I will be tackling the Ghostly Gray 5k once more, it will be my 2nd time at this event and my 10th organized race since I started doing them last year. Here I am, a year later, once more running the race that started it all for me.

It's amazing that until I was 44 years old I had no interest in running in any way, shape, or form. The handful of times I had tried it in the past I hated it (not to mention that I thoroughly sucked at it as well).

I started C25k only because I was bored of the workouts I had been doing - and that deviation ended up opening up a whole new world to me - running. I fell in love. I'm still in love.

Next year will be more 5k's as well as 10k's and in May, my first half marathon.

Never be afraid to try something new...you never know where it'll take you!

~ Sherri