I did the Kent Christmas Rush. It was neat because I expected to be alone:( but when I got there I ran into Jordanne and then my cousin and her family called as they were running the 5K. It was also warmer this year thank goodness!!!! I rememebr ice on the ground for last years run and I was scared I woudl slip.
I started runing with Jordanne but I could'nt keep up so I paced with a couple of nice ladies along the way for the first 2 miles I was running a 10 minute pace. The woman I paced off of was runing 42 races this year in honor of her 42 nd brithday. She was really imprssive and super humble. She said that she hoped that this would make her a runner in the end. She is running Jingle Bells tomorrow also. After chatting with her I slowed down quite a bit to 11-12 minutes miles with a few walk breaks after mile 5. I fnished the race with a woman dressed as an elf she was running for her health and had just done the Seattle Half Marathon.
Along the way I saw Jeff and Denali twice (they were standing behind the house on the edge of the course). Super encouraging and sweet to see them. Also gave me an excuse to stop and catch my breath which I like more and more these days.
They ran out of cups at the turn around and started handing out full bottles of water which depending on how you look at it is either really great or kind of lame. I liked having the water but I don't like running with stuff in my hands especially big swishy water bottles. I handed mine off to Jeff whn I saw him next. The volunteers along the course were super nice and very cheerful it made me smile every time they started screaming!!!
My time was 1:09 very slow and I would like to improve on that for future. I did do this just to push myself to go the 6 mile distance and it worked I think I will do another one soon and start doing the speed work Nicole suggested. I really have a goal of 8 min or a little less, I need to start working on that.
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