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September 24, 2011
Murphy Maize Days 5k Take 2
I signed up for the race in spite of the fact that I wasn't at all trained for it. My longest run in months was 25 minutes the Monday before the race, and I followed that up with a 20 minute run on Wednesday because that's how long I made it before I ran out of gas.
I knew going into the race that I wouldn't be running the whole thing, and in fact my goal was really to just run more than half of the race. Nothing too lofty.
It was cool this morning, in the 60's when I left the house. About as nice as a race in daylight can be. I'm still not used to running in the sun!
I managed to run for the first 26 minutes, which was way farther than I thought I was going to get right up until it happened. I walked for one minute, and then managed to run to the finish, even up the big hill cruelly placed at the end of the race.
In my age group, I finished 21 out of 48. Overall 171 out of 320. My chip time was 32:40, which isn't so bad, although I'm remembering how miserably I did last year, and my time is only 14 seconds faster. Last year my excuse was blood donation, this year, poor training.
Posted by me at September 24, 2011 11:22 AM