Harvest Homecoming Fast 5K

Today Chris, Gibby, and I ran the Harvest Homecoming Fast 5K. This was my third 5K in three weeks. I ended up waking up around 4:30 am this morning after getting to bed around 1:00 am. The life of a 3rd shifter! I tried to go back to sleep with no luck. I got up, got dressed, and grabbed a small bite to eat. I did not want to eat anything too heavy, like a No Way Jose!

I then left the house around 7:40 am to go pick up Gibby. Got to his house around 7:45 am and picked him up. I took about 15 minutes to get to the site of the run, which was on our home court. We run in that area just about every night that we work. Chris pulled in right behind us. We then walked inside and got registered. After sitting around for about 30 minutes we walked outside. Glad that I did, since I had put on a base layer and it needed to come off. It was warmer than I thought.

We were then informed that due to some road construction that what I thought was the course had been changed. Not a big deal since I did not expect to be the leader. The women were given a 3 minute head start anyway. Not sure why, but who cares. After the 3 minute wait for the women we were off. For whatever reason I shot out like a bat out of hell. I quickly realized my mistake and settled into a better pace with Chris. I thought that the race went pretty good. I ended up setting a new PR of 23:16. Chris came in just over 24 and Gibby just over 35. We all received one of the 100 finisher medals!

After the race was over we headed home. The rest of my day will be filled with a band competition. I am not sure when my next official 5k will be, but I am probably going to run one on Disney's Castaway Cay when we are there in a couple of weeks.

So until next time.....

Yeti Out!