Last Saturday I ran my first 5k of the summer. I know these races don’t have seasons, they happen all year round. But I’m a much better running in summer than winter – so I see summer as the race season. Someday I’ll become hard core and run all year round.
The 5k was the Flight For Sight, located at Boeing in Everett. It’s to raise money for guide dogs. The only other race I’ve done was a pretty big race. So when I got there and saw how low key it was I was kinda disappointed, mostly because no swag. Also they didn’t have as many people, so for most of the race I was running by myself. Running in the big crowed last time really helped push me. But it was a cool run. The weather was perfect, overcast not too hot not too cold. At one point we ran by what looked to be an airplane grave yard. They didn’t have the most sophisticated way to time us. So I didn’t know my time until today. Plenty of people at the finish line before me so I didn’t think too much of it. I knew my time was around 31 minutes, which I figured was somewhere in the middle, and not being able to run for about 3 week before I was plenty happy with that. My group left early, they were giving out medals to the top 2 people of different age groups, but we weren’t there. So I went to breakfast with my friend. It was yummy.
Today I thought about checking my time. I pull up the website… and to my astonishment… I came in 2nd for my age group!!! So what if there are only 6 ladies in my age group :) I still would have gotten a medal! Oh well