Subject: RE: Benihana's Group - CLOSED Hey! Where has everyone been this week??? Nothing exciting going on anywhere??
Well, I raced my first 5K today!! I really enjoyed it...I like this personal challenge stuff. It was about 30degrees (can you believe it? ) and snowing. A few ice pellets actually hit me dead on in the eyeball...pleasant.
I finished in 31min. and ? seconds. I didn't wait around for the official posting of times. I am pretty pleased with the time, though I think if I was better aware of how far I was from the finish line, I could have stepped it up a bit earlier. Live and learn...
I learned a good lesson today to prepare me for my sprint tri, which is 2 weeks from tomorrow. I read an article about race day for the first-timer, and how to avoid the crowd. In other words, it is very busy, and people are milling around and talking, blah, blah. When I entered the building to get my t-shirt and race number, I was handed a bag with the envelope containing the number stapled to it. I headed toward the bathroom for one last stop. As I was walking, I pulled the envelope off of the bag and proceeded to misplace it. I came out of the bathroom, noticed I didn't have the envelope and had to backtrack, looking through hundreds of feet for my number. Someone called my name, and they had it. Phew. I then took the number and the paperclips out of the envelope and stuck it in my bag. During this I was milling around looking for some friends I knew were there. I LOST MY RACE NUMBER!!!! I cursed at myself and with only 8 min. till race time, had to go look around again...lucky for me, someone had it in their hand! What a complete scatter brain! I then took everything, ran to my car, put my bag/t-shirt in my trunk, pulled myself together and pinned the number on my coat.
I had no conscious feeling of being overwhelmed, but boy did it show in my behavior! I guess I will take heed and stay out of the pre-race action!! Thanks for listening to my rambling on...
Sandy |