I haven't run a 5k in a year and guess got slow on thinking this process through. I started out fast with the first mile being 7.13,( speed w/o have been at 7.35) which, at the time, I was happy with, however, that changed at the turnaround where the Garmin was reading 7.35 and at the second mile was 7.55, which was bad. After the 2nd mile the course was all up hill and best I could do was 8.33 pace to finish. 11 seconds faster then my last time on this course.

not go out so fast.

walked around with kids, Conor ate three pieces of pizza, I ate a banana and guzzled three bottles of water.


This was a super race for a small church. They had turkeys to top runners, 100$ gift cards, pies and then of course, medals to all top runners. The course is hard, and I know I really need to work on legs with weights,lunges and squats, which I am doing. I hope to be a little faster at next months 5k. After race activites were also great, they had a one mile run course and a kid fun run. They also had pizza, Izzy Sandwiches, fruit and bagels. I would do the race again.