Hiiiii ya'll. I did this 5k with my 3 cute friends this morning. Julie, Robyn, and Jessica. We are the crazzziest girls on planet earth! We had so much fun. We did about a half mile warm up and went to the start line as they called for the 5k. It was pretty packed. I went to the front where the race directors and the Provo City Mayor were. One of the directors is giving us directions about where we are running this year (the course was different from last year). And he says don't run over the bridge, go under it. I spoke up and said something about it being the same turn as last year, and just follow the people in front. He goes they'll be following YOU Sis! LOL! I had on a white headband and he starts yelling to the crowd and pointing at me: "FOLLOW THE WHITE RABBIT!" Hahahahahahahaha, I think I turned bright red! They gave the Mayor a 1 minute head start. Then we were off. It's showtime! I passed the poor Mayor before we even hit the viaduct. He patted me on the back and he said: go get em white rabbit! Haha I can't believe I got pinned as a target! White rabbit shmabbit. :) This course is probably one of the hardest 5k's I've done. Serious. Basically the whole thing was incline. I was dying. The only downhill of sorts was in the last half mile going back under the viaduct. I tried my hardest today. The distance went longer than a 3.1. My watch and Julie's watch read 3.22
I think I am still just trying to recover back a little bit of my running fitness after injury,. Also, I am carrying around an extra 9 lbs that wasn't there 4 months ago. After consistent running outside every morning tempo pacing etc., I'll get back to where I was. After all these things can come together, I'll feel like I am truly back to my normal. I ran with men the whole time. There was 1 gal slightly ahead of me. She looked like she was doing great. She looked like a former BYU runner from her tights she was sporting.
Run13 puts on a good race. I love them! I got to see Allie and fiddy, Jun and Chad. Fritz and a few others. Love to see my FRB homies. Splits: 6:19, 6:49, 6:57, 1:41. I wfelt slammed at the end. 2nd over all female, 1st place in age 30-34. I looked at the window and what did I see?....
Allie and FiddyJun and Lily havin' a chat. He gave me a nice surprise squirt of water on my neck. payback buddy.
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