1 down 11 to go! Frosty Fingers 5miler Race report

Frosty Fingers 5mile race
Saturday January 12th, 2013 9am 41degrees
Gunpowder Falls State Park

So I managed to find a January race! YES! I narrowly avoided screwing up my NY resolution in the first month!  This was an awesome race.  Small & friendly.  Flat, fast & nice and cool.  And CHEAP!!  No traffic, no parking issues and no lines for the port a pot (although I found the "secret" ones).

I arrived at the park around 8:30.  You had to drive all the way around to get to the parking area, so I decided to make a "pit stop" at the pottys near the beach.  Smart move, there was a decent line for both registration and the potty at the race start.  By decent line, I mean 20 people, but moving really well.  I registered for a whopping $6, yes SIX dollars and got my free pair of BRRC gloves, bib & pins.  I was meeting a fellow Chi Omega alum and some of her friends before the race, so we caught up & headed to the start line.  There were probably about 90 runners.

There's not much to report on the actual race itself.  It was a perfect temperature for me.  Mile 1 and Mile 5 were my best.  3 & 4 were the "worst".  My goal was to finish at/under 40minutes.  Until I realized that I don't know how to multiply!  5milesx9min/mile is NOT 40, it's 45!  Readjust....goal was at/under 45minutes! :)  I felt pretty decent with no major issues.  I kept an eye on Garfield (my Garmin) to make sure I was close to 9.  Garfield told me that the course was off, so......according to him I finished 5miles in 44:24.  According to clock time I finished 45:07.  SEVEN seconds, REALLY?! If I could only learn to drink from a cup & still run without 1 - choking to death, or 2 - throwing water in my face, I would have been good.  Oooh well.

I ran back down the course after finishing to find Lindsey & Jacob & run back in with them.  I left them just before the finish, so I could swing around & cheer them in.  They gave away really funny prizes for the winners (both based on time & random draw).  Fuzzy animal backpacks, gumball machine, shirts, hats, cookies & stuffed animals.  I'm pretty sure they raided the clearance isle at CVS before the race! Either way it was a nice, low key race.  And fellow fast runners stuck around & spread out on the course to cheer the rest of us in.

Looking forward to 11 more good feeling race reports!!!

What's February's race?!  We shall see!