The first time I participated in this event was in 2005, when I was just a couple of months preggers with Thing 1. Christina ran with me and it was her first 10K! Ahh, such sweet memories!
This year, I recorded my fastest 10K time: 50:23. But, this only put me at 46/141 overall (women), and 19/48 in my age group. Jeeze, those people run fast!
So, to the lowdown on the run….
I started out just wanting to keep pace with Tom who’s been doing speed workouts and is historically faster out of the gates than I am. I couldn’t keep up with him for the first two miles. After probably about 3/4 mile, I told myself that there was no way I could sustain this pace, so I dropped back and watched his head bobbing off in the (near) distance.
But, at mile 3, I somehow caught up and we ran together until mile 4. At this point, we just passed the water station and a woman fell at Tom’s feet! So, gentleman that he is, he stopped to help her…I was clueless and continued on.
At mile 5, the iRiver shuffled over to “Code Monkey” and that (in addition to a few other factors) motivated me to pick up my pace for the final mile.
Overall, I’m happy with the results and I think it was a good training run for next week’s duathlon here in Aptos….I need to sustain some level of fitness for the duathlon since I’ll be biking with my mountain bike and I will probably have leaden legs by the time I get off the bike for the final run.