The race start was just under 2miles from my mom's campground, so after camping out in a tent with my niece the night before, I decided a 2 mile warm up was going to do it. I took it easy & just jogged over, enjoying the sunrise and cursing myself for not only forgetting appropriate sunglasses (big old bug eye Coach glasses just wouldn't do here) but also a hat!
It was a pretty small race. Found out at the end 104 people finished. So I actually had to line up about 3-4 people deep from the finish line. I decided to throw some tunes on & just go for it. So far to date my fastest paces have been logged in half marathons, NOT 5K's! Didn't make much sense in my head, so I figured, let's see how "fast" we can run this. I'm not a fast runner, I never claimed to be. I'm usually middle to back of the pack & totally ok with that. All I knew is I wanted to run under a 9min/mile pace for 3.1miles. Should be easy enough seeing as my last half marathon was just over that for 13.1, right?!
Race was flat & fast with a little head wind coming back in. The last half mile was on the boardwalk so it was a little deceptive. You thought you were almost done, but yet....the finish seemed to never get there. I picked a few runners in front of me & said "hard & steady & pass".I finished in 25:55 my fastest 5K to date & get this...............SECOND place in my age group. I couldn't believe it!!! I won't share how many were in my age group but it was more than 4, so I'm happy. I've never placed and I probably won't again anytime soon, so I will take my TWO medals & jog off into the sunset (or the morning sun, in the midst of bike week back to a campground).
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