G and I are finally back from our week in San Francisco. The main event for me was running my first 5k right next to the bay and the Golden Gate Bridge! I promised not too much running on the blog, but I'm going to chat just a second about this race. I started running, for the first time in my adult life, in January using a couch to 5k program on my i-pod. This year, the year after I turned forty, has been about doing things that I have always wanted to do but have never done, running was one of those things. Every time it was a run day, I would think that there was no way I was going to make it, every run, but every run I found some way to make it through.
The culmination of this challenge was an actual race. This, for those who know me in real life, was WAY out of my comfort zone. So, G and I signed up. I'm glad the race was a day after we arrived because I was so nervous I could barely think about anything else except,"There is no way I'm going to be able to do this." I kept thinking this, even though I had run the 5k distance three times a week for three weeks in a row at home. I had three goals going in to the race, I wanted to run the whole thing, run it under 40 mins, and not be last. I managed to accomplish all three goals, coming in at 36 mins 11 sec. You would think, after accomplishing what I set out to do, I would realize that I can do far more than I think I can.
Tomorrow's a run day. You know what I'm thinking? "There's no way I'm going to make that run." I guess what I really learned is, I need to do some more work around this or that I'm a really slow learner. It could go either way. Tomorrow, I run.
(Thanks for putting up with the craft interruption, tomorrow, baby gifts!)
So proud of you!! KAB
Posted by: KAB | March 22, 2010 at 09:53 AM