5k Run

[Ydoow]

Date: Monday, April 2nd 2012

*Father enters household*

Father: GUISE GUESS WAT!!!

Siblings (simultaneously): ...what T-T

Father: I SIGNED US UP FOR A 5k RUN THIS SATURDAY!!

Me: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Sisters (stricken with panic): ...

Me: Been 2 years since I last ran. This will be interesting

Father: Better start training

Sisters: ...

*curtains close*

So here I am, posting Friday night. Charity race starts Tomorrow at 10am. Apparently it\'s really hilly.

I started running every night since Tuesday and am very happy to report that since Tuesday I\'ve dropped 3 minutes off my loop time.

I don\'t know how far I\'ve been running, only that I\'ve been running for ~12 minutes. I do a little loop across the park, each lap takes me about 3 minutes to run now, so I\'m figuring it\'s gotta be close to .5miles, probably a little less than that, maybe .4

I ran cross country my senior year in highschool, so I\'m smart enough to know that I will flatline tomorrow. But the important thing is that I\'ll die farther ahead than the rest of my family

I\'m expecting a time of about 25-26 minutes, which is pretty god awful.

But that time is accounting for the fact that my practice sessions have only lasted 12 minutes of running, and also that this course will involve 900ft of elevation change.

I\'ll report back with times. There\'s a cut off at 1 hour, but I don\'t expect any of us to get anywhere close to that.

[Bluejayek]

My recomendations are

a) don\'t run the day before you race (Looks like you already did that!)

watch what you eat before the race, stomach cramps are awful.

c) Have fun!

Good luck tommorow

A time of 25 minutes is hardly terrible. In a race I was in last spring, 25 minutes would put you 35th out of 600 runners, hardly terrible.

[Ydoow]

Yeah I already ran. And as you can see, I didn\'t go for the 'Good night of rest' thing either lol

When I did cross country (first year ever doing long distance running) my slowest time was just shy of 25 minutes so I used that as a base-line. We\'ll see

[Guest GroundHOG-2010]

Good luck. Better you then me (really, I would die before the 1 km mark).

[Ydoow]

Well we ran. I left my family in the dust.

That\'s not to say I didn\'t excellent though lol.

I ran around 29 minutes. I didn\'t see an exact time because I was about dead and sprinting.

The course was pretty darn hilly, but after the half-way mark you kinda zone out and just take it.

The very last .75 miles were rough though, almost thought I\'d have to stop and walk for a bit.

I\'m proud I didn\'t stop though

My favorite part is the full out sprint before the finish. Get to pass a few people at the last second and then a nice hearty puke right after

Except I hadn\'t eaten that morning so it was more like an acidic spit-up lol

[Phoxtane]

Congratulations!

I have no intention of entering any sort of timed run, I hate those.

[Nooblet68]

Congrats!

[Ydoow]

Ah it wasn\'t truly timed per se. They offered a timer for prizes on the first 15 place holders, after that the time was just to give you an idea of how you did.

The whole thing was a charity event for the Veterans Hospital around here, so it certainly wasn\'t 'THIS GUY RULES DA WORLD YOU ALL SUCK' type of race lol

But most importantly, I\'ve kept running after the race, which was my main goal. Getting in shape yo.