Saturday's 5k

The run went better than expected. Let me start off by telling you how the day started. I ended up waking around 4:30 am this morning. After lying in bed for awhile attempting to go back to sleep I decided that it just was not going to happen. So I got up and had a small breakfast. At about 6:30 Chris showed up at the house, right on time I may add, and we made our way to Shawnee Park for the 5k. As we exited the car we were immediately welcomed with the great smell of bacon. After taking a moment to enjoy the aroma we made our way to the registration location. After signing in and receiving our numbers I was amazed at the amount of people running before the thing even started. I mean it's only a 5k. Not a whole lot of warm up needed in my opinion, but I am not a marathon runner.

Before the race started we positioned ourselves at the back of the pack. As we were standing at the back waiting for the run to start we both picked out "targets" that we thought we could finish in front of for our goals. Mine was a lady probably in her 60's and Chris's looked like John Ratzenberger from Cheers. As we started our run we quickly passed our targets. As we passed them we set new goals. Those goals were also met. The final "targets" were a bit harder to acquire, but we did it. As we rounded the final turn and headed for the finish we gave it all that we had. To our amazement we finished the run in just over 25 minutes. Which is much faster than any time we have ran so far.

We then made our way to the breakfast tent. As we entered the tent we happened to notice a lot of trophies sitting on a table. As we looked over the trophies began to wonder how many people were in our age group. We then actually thought that there was a possibility that we would get an award. As we sat there and watched them had out awards it came to our age group. In my amazement my name was called as the third place finisher in my age group. Who would have thought that? I do have to mention that there were only 6 people in our age group and the person who finished 2nd was an entire minute ahead of us.

So that is how the morning went. I am very happy and amazed at the times that we ran in. It is very promising for the run in October. We will also be running another 5k in about a month.

The Black Crowes show was great. I will try to post about it soon. Could not have been a better weekend.