Monday, July 16, 2012

Womens' 5k

I helped out with the Albuquerque Road Runner's Woman's Distance Festival (5k)  this weekend.  There is a training program associated with this that I think is a great asset to our running community and gets a lot of women involved in running in a fun and supportive environment.  This year they had a Kid's K fun run and it was the cutest thing ever!  Check this video out I think she was the youngest running it and thought it was funny that they would draw green arrows on the ground!










The run is fast fun course and there were a lot of fast women out there so proud of everyone!  This a run walk event.  My running buddy who is fast herself is a crazy woman and also ran another 5k that night but I'm glad she joined me for this one too even if the warm up mile was the only part we ran together because she's too fast for me :-)

I donated what ended up being 4 packs of greeting cards as prize drawings, was going to be 2 but some of the display ones were given out too but what better group of ladies to give them too right?!? :-)

The fist lucky winner of the greeting cards!
Getting her AG award which was a pretty bracelet with a charm!  Miss Speedy!

Of course for the finish line they handed out flowers and chocolates.  This was a great way to end the weekend.  This last week wasn't so great training wise for me I woke up every day feeling tired even though I had just slept at least 8 hours.  I'd come home tired didn't want to workout, clean, cook, hangout, nothing just sleep.  And with a pounding headache to boot!  Then Sunday morning when I woke up was the first time I felt half normal again!  WooHoo!  I did this one in 25:02 which for me is is a good 5k time.  So my 5k PR I got 11 years ago at 21 mins. at what point can you decide to reset your PR?  :-)  I usually do a bike and swim along with this so that felt weird to just be done!  Happy Monday here's to a much better week of training ahead, glad that last week is done and I can move past it!


3 comments:

Jill said...

I always wonder where the magical line of changing your PR is, too. I surely can't use my 5 and 10k times from 25 years ago, right? Hahah. I'm sure it only matters to you :). Great job on the race time, sounds like an absolute blast! Love the greeting cards...did you make them? SO pretty!

Katie said...

so much fun! love it!

Coy Martinez said...

See, I use to run cross country in college and I always try and go back to remember what my 5K PR was but I think I disliked running so much that I didn't want to remember!

Those cards are awesome!!