We Did It!

So Brian and I ran the Indian Summer 5K on Saturday.  I discovered that I prefer running in the dark at 5:30 in the morning to running in the bright sunshine at 8:00.  I think I'll wear a hat for the next run, which will be the Howl n' Scream Scram on October 23rd.

On Thursday I ran for five minute blocks with 2 minute intervals of walking between, and it was actually pretty easy.  So I decided to cut my walking time down to blocks of a minute and 30 seconds for the actual race, and it was tough!  I beat my Thursday time, which was my goal, but it was definitely hard to do.  On Thursday I kept thinking, "Maybe I'll try to do the 10K in October instead of the 5K," but after Saturday I've decided that I should improve my 5k time and increase the time I actually spend running before I attempt a 10K.

Brian and I were walking and running at different times throughout the race, so we kept passing each other and saying, "Hello," which was fun.  Brian was about ten paces behind me at the end, so he caught up to me and grabbed my hand, and we crossed the finish line together at 32 minutes and 8 seconds.  At the beginning of last week I was praying that I would finish under 40 minutes, so I am quite proud of myself.

My favorite part of the whole thing was running beside two teenage girls, whose conversation went like this:

Girl 1: Are you sweaty?

Girl 2: Yeah, are you sweaty?

Girl 1: (slight pause) No.

Liar!  How can you not be at least a tiny bit sweaty after running two miles in the sunshine?  My goodness - I almost laughed out loud, but I'm glad I didn't.  When I told Brian about it later, he said she must have been "glistening" instead of sweating.