"Ran" my 1st 5K today, glad I finished HORRIFIED I am so slow

Hey, do not be hard on yourself.  We all started somewhere.  You got out of bed and did something this morning while 99% of the world was still in bed.

You completed a 5K...Congratulations

Awesome job, you did it.  One great thing about starting out is you will really be able to see your improvements.  You've taken the biggest step and gotten started, maybe you inspired some of those walkers or certainly you'll inspire even more as they watch you get faster. 

Good job, did you enjoy the event and all  of the people? 

Ditto to what has already been said.

That's a big first step!  Congrats   You'll probably enjoy the second one more anyways!

Thank you all !  Your encouragement just made my day, I actually feel much better from what you all have said . I just really did not know I'd do so poorly, but it can only go up from here ! lol

 We actually ran past my folks house (keep in mind I am a 40 year old woman calling my mom on my cell phone to tell her to "look out the window mom, I'm jogging by" ! lol there were times I'd say my little montra "enjoy the journey" over and over and times I turned my music up so loud I could not hear my negative thoughts.

My favorite part of it all was when we ran past my house (at the very beginning, this was held in my neighborhood) and my 4 year old daughter was in the window jumping up and down in her jammies yelling "go mommy mommy.......go mommy" !!

I had not been running at all, my knee was hurting over the past week so I stopped jogging. CLEARLY one needs to keep running !  I'm honestly not sure how to get faster though, I'll have to read up on the forum posts.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all, and thank you for helping me see that I finished my first 5k, so I do have something to be proud of.
OH !!! one last thing, the young man that started out first and stayed that way was coming out of the park as I went in and I smiled and said "this is what last place looks like".  I figure I inspired him !! lol

Many thanks friends !!!

I am just so impressed you got out there and did it.  You know what?   the HUGE majority of people in the world did nothing close to what you did.

I know we are always our own worst critics, but let this one in, you did GREAT

Just ETA, I started running at about age 39, sucked at it.  A few years later, I am still back of the pack, but I have gotten better.  My advice to improve.  (1) patience (2) consistency and (3) the 10% rule (i.e., same as patience, don't increase too fast)

Getting better is a years long process

Congratulations on finishing your 5k and you did an awesome job!!

--DB

Hey you did a great job. I managed a total of zero k today

J

Awesome job...

Congratulations on completing the 5K and happy thanksgiving.