I signed up for the 5K and was ready to break 18:00. I left for a warm up 20 minutes before the race and when I came back to the car to get my racing flats, racing chip, etc. My parent had locked it and left to find a spot on along the course to watch. I sprinted all over the park looking for them (800-1200 meters). By the time I found them the 5K had already started so I jumped into the 10K that started 15 minutes later. I was not ready for a 10K and had just zapped a lot of entry looking for my parents. My 5K split was a 18:02. It would have been nice to break 18 minutes but at least I got my first 10K time what wasn't proceeded by a 5K race an hour earlier.

taken my race chip and race shoes with me on the warm up so I could have run the race I had trained for.