Friday, October 4, 2013

My 5k live tweet!

Last Saturday, Sept. 28,  I participated in the Cougar Chase 5k race, which benefited the Ada City School system.

As usual, I was at the race with my running buddy, Carrie!
Because of what ever reason *cough* *ahem* *LAZY* *cough*, I did not train for this race. I knew it was going to be rough, but it was really obvious about 5 minutes in. I went to my to my default training mode, which is to walk the distance between 2 electric poles, then run the next...that is until I came to the 1k mark on the course. At this point, I decided to live tweet my race.

The first water stop was soon after the 1k mark. It was humid, so I was ready for it.

The course was two laps around Wintersmith Park. Here's the pond/(lake?) just before the half-way point.

The tweet says it all!

After I posted the previous tweet, I was happy to walk upon a former colleague of mine. We walked and chatted for a bit, then...
Last water stop. I walked a while and enjoyed my water. Again, it was SO HUMID!!! (I was also thinking that my next 5k participation will be to pick up the cups for the runners.)

I knew my time was going to be horrible, but I knew I couldn't live tweet a 5k without posting a pic of the finish. I was a little apprehensive about stopping for the pic, but I needed it for my post. It also inspired a few laughs. :) After snapping the pic I RAN across the finish because I wanted to finish in under 50 minutes.

It turns out that I crossed the finish line at exactly 50:00 minutes!

I finished the Cougar Chase 5k in exactly 50 minutes!



I hope my next blog post is just a review of my amazing fast time and some great pics with Carrie, but I am happy with how I had fun with this 5k!
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