Races, races, races!

A few weeks ago a friend called me asking me to run the AEP Festival 5k/10k. He runs it every year and, although he lives about an hour away, he was driving in for it. This was right after my 1/2 which was very enjoyable but totally trashed me. (I was dead tired for like a week and a half) I was initially going to just tell him I couldn't but I just couldn't resist the urge to run. I decided that I would run the 10k instead of the 5k and that I wouldn't set any kind of a time goal for myself, I would just take it easy and let the chips fall where they may. It was going to be my first 10k anyway so I was guaranteed a PR, there was no reason to kill myself.

The race ended up going great, I started out with an 8 minute mile and steadily dropped my time every mile after. My final time was 42:38, which I was very pleased with. Bring on the next race!