Anywho today I ran a 5K that I found through the Pretzel City Sports website last week. Sometimes it seems that every 5K around here is funding a cause I'd rather not give money to, being such a religious area. I just don't feel comfortable funding a mission trip as I don't agree with proselytizing. But we do have plenty of fire house and school fundraising raises, which I love! Today's race was in Myerstown, about 20 minutes north of downtown Lititz. Beautiful town! I even passed a farm on the way in with a ton of baby lambs and two yaks! Yaks!!
The race was funding the local high school's post graduation bash - a party hosted by the school where the kids can go celebrate safely! Love it. It was a super small race; I think there were only 40 runners! I got excited when I saw the small field, since I thought I could rustle up an age group award. Unfortunately out of those 40 people, about 10 were women in the 30-39 age group! Doh!
The race director was super nice and she did a really good job marking the course - there was really only one point where I had no one in front of me and wasn't 100% sure where to go, but it worked out in the end. The weather was freezing when we started, so I wore a long sleeve top over my shirt, but got rid of that about halfway through the race when the sun came out. This is when I love having my Nathan bib holder. It's nothing fancy, just a strap with two toggles for the bib, but it's so nice to be able to get rid of a layer and not have to worry about safety pins.
We finished the first mile in just over 9 minutes, which is SUPER fast for me. But I could see who I thought was the #3 woman in my age group about a minute ahead of me and I desperately wanted to catch up with her, so I tried to keep the pace. Eventually I had to let that pace go and even had to walk a couple times in the 3rd mile to catch my breath, but I still managed 10:35' miles after the first and finished in 31:53. That's like a 55 second PR, y'all! That broke my middle school 5K time, haha. So happy!!
Time to go pick up husband from the train station - our 2nd anniversary is in 2 days! <3
