The local Turkey Trot (5K) was today. My whole family participated. Doone, Cade, Chase and I ran the 5 K. Tally and Lane did the 2 mile walk. It was windy, but the temp was about 60 degrees and it was sunny. They moved the course this year to the island which made it a nice flat course as opposed the the crazy hill one we have been running. Chase got 1st in the 12 and under AG, and Cade got 3rd in that same AG. Doone is still recovering from her surgery, but finished strong. Tally and Lane had a lot of fun doing the 2 mile walk with some other friends of ours. I had no idea what to expect today. I've only been running 3 days a week and not that far. I have been doing speed work once a week though. After a 1.5 mile warm up with a few strides thrown in, we towed the line for the start. At the gun a bunch of the younger guys went flying out, I held back and ran with a three other guys that I new were about my pace. When we hit the first mile at 5:45 I figured I was in big trouble. I pulled back a little bit with one of the other guys I was running with and the other two kept going. Mile 2 was 6:18. I quickly did some math and realized that I'd just have to run barely under 7 for the last 1.1 to set a PR. I focused on one runner that had been well ahead of me the entire race but seemed to be slowly coming back to me and tried to slowly real him in. I caught him with a little more than 1/4 mile to go and ran right past him. Mile 3 was 6:18. I gave it everything I had averaging 5:22 for the last 0.1 and to my surprise and delight finished in 18:58. A new PR by 1 second! I guess I was in better shape than I thought I was. I finished 5th overall and 1st in the 40-49 AG. | 