Distance: 5K Run/Walk
You'd think I would have learned a lesson last year when I ran
this
extremely hilly 5K race. Not only did I once again punish
myself, but I also
convinced Hollie that he should walk the race. When he asked me
about the
course, I think I said something like---"it does have a few
hills, but it
really is in a beautiful part of town." I'm really surprised
that when he
finished the race (way ahead of many of the runners) he didn't
show the
anger that I anticipated. His walk time was 36:55. Had they
given awards to
the walkers, I think he would have been 1st overall.
The course started with a downhill, then went up and down
several times
until just after mile 2 when we had a hill that was so steep
that I almost
gave in and walked it. I might have been faster had I walked.
Instead, I
struggled through to the top and then we did some more ups and
downs with a
downhill finish.
The full
results are not yet posted, but I did much better than last
year
when I ran a time of 28:14 and finished 75th out of about
250-300 women.
This year my time was 27:32 and I was 66 of all the women and
2nd in my AG.
Last year I won the AG with a slower time, but this year there
was a local
woman who was about 45 seconds ahead of me. I talked with her
after the race and she was real disappointed that she had not
registered early enough to
get one of the Santa hats that were given to the first 500 to
register.
Since I already have about 25 of those Santa caps (for the
club's Christmas
run/party), I gave her mine. You would have thought she'd won
the race.
Yesterday afternoon, I told Hollie there was no way I was going
to do this
race again next year. Today, I'm already thinking about how if I
just do a
little bit of hill training, it wouldn't be so bad. I'm
beginning to think
that all this running that I've been doing all these years has
really done
something to my memory because I know if I do it next year I'll
be saying
the same thing about how I didn't remember those hills being
*that* bad.
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