Woke up this morning not feeling all that great as I've been fighting being sick for the last week. Had a sore throat, kind of stuffed up and didn't know how much energy I'd have, but I figured that I'd HTFU and see what happened.

Started out well, but took a little bit to get my breathing in check becuase of being stuffed up and lower energy levels, but got that sorted about 1/2 a km in and started to feel pretty good. Then around the 5.5 - 6km mark I got a really bad stitch in my abdomen. I tried to breathe through it, but it just wasn't going away so I had to walk for about 1/2 a km to try and stretch the damn thing out. When it was apparent that it just wasn't going to go away, I decided to hell with it and started running again, but at a slower pace and concentrating on my breathing. It eventually went away around the 8km mark and I FINALLY started to feel comfortable on the run, just to realize that I only had 2km left in the race. Picked up the pace again and felt like I finished pretty strong.

Thank god for good looking pace booty to get me through!

Not run when I feel like pewp.

Stretching, water, and walking back to the office building.


Being sick and the fact that I suck at running.


Always a good/fun race to run especially with all the bands that they have along the course to keep people having a good time and to try and distract them from the fact that they're running. :)