April Fool's 5K - Run5k

ready to go at the start. usually i run 5K with my wife, but this time she had me run fast and not run with her. i went towards the front, but not at the front, i don't think anyone mistook me for speedy anyway. the race started and everyone took off.
there was a guy (we'll call him frank) i was gunning for. frank said he was shooting for a pretty quick time, i was hoping to beat frank. the first mile went pretty quick. it was slightly downhill (which we'll have to run back up) and some people were going pretty fast, including frank.
the first mile had a volunteer calling times, 6:11 i heard as i went past. holy balls! that is pretty fast for yours trully. a small voice of doubt took this oppertunity to laugh and tell me i was going too fast.
the stomach started to feel a little tight. not really cramping, just saying to me "you are not a running sprinter, can we sit a rest a bit while we talk this out?". i saw mile 2 coming up, i looked at my watch, 14:11. HUH? i don't think i died that much, something is fishy. anyway,the last mile was a twisty uphill road back the way we came. to my advantage, these were the roads i trained for a marathon on, so i knew them quite well. the trick is to know which was the last turn, and which was the second to last. i had caught up to frank, but when i ran beside him, he would speed up a little bit. looks like he wanted to beat me as well. my only hope was that he was tired and his little bursts of speed would leave him with nothing at the end. with one last turn to go, i made my move. muscles on fire, lungs felt like they were stuffed with newspaper, the end is in sight! my finish is not very impressive. i pumped my arms as fast as i could trying to coax a last bit of energy out to make it into the chute. i felt like i was moving in slow motion, i heard someone trying to get around me, and i may have moved over to block them from the chute. finish, look at my time....19:14?????? are you f#$king serious? there's no way i just dropped 1:45 from one year and one course ago! something is suspicous.....but it was enough to get 3rd in my age group, so i'll take that! hardware race!!!!!!

in the race? maybe try and suck it up a little more on the way home and skip the long sleeve even though it was freezing. other than that, no worries. good effort for a swimmer ;)

grabbed some water and started walking back the course looking for rach. when she came up i jogged back to the finish. good runs all around.


exercise induced asmatha, but it's not like it's going to go away.


the rain delayed things a bit. especially since the original site is underwater. no drink stations, but they would have been in the rain. lots of bagels at the finish. results took a long time to get done, but it wasn't out of the ordinary.