5K intake. Kind of long.

So I did my second 5K ever today and I am sore, tired and proud of myself. I walked down an hour before the start of the race to go get some cold water and Gatorade gummies from the gas station by my house, and also close to the start/finish of the race. I downed my water and ate my gummies while I waited for the race to start.

I made some friends at the race today as well. I am actually waiti for them to respond to my friend request on Facebook and then I will able to friend them on mfp as well. It is going to be so great to have some local fitness friends!

We all walk down to the post office area to start the race and they have the walkers and runners start together, strange but ok, so we're off. The runners broke away from the pack and were out of sight in a matter of minutes. I tried to keep a good pace going the whole time and was doing really well until about mile two. It seemed like most of the race was steep uphill but we did not really get a steep downgrade after the uphill portion.

Around mile two we were in an area of town I have not been in for years and I had a little trip down memory lane remembering when I went to the dance studio on that side of town and we passed by my late aunt's house.

It's around here that I changed my playlist to my metal music to attempt to give myself a little mental push to get past the pain and keep going. At this point I was starting to get a pain in my back on my right side, probably from breathing really heavly exclusively through my mouth. I still have not really gotten the hang of how to breathe properly while racing.

A girl who was walking close to me had told me that she had recently had surgery on both of her legs and we would be able to finish this togehter. I started to fall behind her a little bit but I jogged back up to her Nd we did the who,e last mile together.

I finished with a time of 46 minutes, which is two minutes slower than my first race but this had more hills. I did not finish last and I was pretty happy about that. It seems like keeping a steady pace was a better idea then trying to run as far as I can like I did the first time. I had a speed of about 4 miles per hour average and I went about 8 miles per hour at my fastest, must have been one of my short jogs.

I stayed for the awards ceremony and sadly I did not win anything, I think the 25-29 age group had the most people in it.

But all in all I am really proud of myself and I want to do more races and keep improving my time. Maybe next time I can even get my husband to join me, he would out pace me I think. I have caught the 5K bug officially.