Ok, so this disaster of a race.. Here is how it happened. So me and my sister are doing this race. She asks me when will we want to leave, I say 6:30 thinking it's a 7:30 start(5min drive to this race). Now she knew it was a 7am start but she doesn't do as long as a warmup as me so 6:30 was fien with her. So we get there at 6:40ish I talk to a few people then decided to go run and pick up my chip afterwards time:6:50. So I get to the 1 mile marker at about 6:58 when I figure out the race is about to start. Where I then begin to run a real fast pace to get back to the start in time. But I fail so I decide I should atleast get my chip so I can still get timed.

Well they picked up the mats before I could get accross them, oh well I still got my trusty watch. So I take off determined to still run a race. But by the first mile I realised running a 5:30 mile to get to the starting line leaves you tired. I hit the mile marker at 5:46, which isn't bad but I knew I couldn't hold it for 2 more(really I needed to cut 6-8 seconds off of it). So after that I didn't push super hard, though it was still a prety big effort. I came in under the offical time of 20:40 but I really did a 18:50(still slower then any 5k of the year by 35 seconds).

The worste part of all this is that I came in 3rd overall, due to lack of competition and the little that did show up was split between the 5k and 10k. So here I was started 2min back, won my age group and finished in the top 3.

FREAKIGN THE THE RIGHT STARTIGN TIME.

ran 5 miles because I was mad and wanted to make something of the day. So I atleast made my self run 10miles.


I'm a retard.


I wish they didn't get started on time. :\