My First 5K!

Well, this morning I completed my first 5k run; you would think that being a college athlete i would have mastered this by now, but I haven't. So, today I was proud of myself. I ran it in 26:32, averaging 8:34 miles :) and placed 38th out of the group and 8th in my age group. You know when this excites you, your life must be pretty boring :) I think this just gives me the motivation to continue on, b/c I know that I can do it, its just the getting out to do it is the problem. I owe huge props to my work friends Zia and Jesica who motivated me to do the run in the first place. Without them I would have slept in on this rainy, 47 degree day and never made it to the gym. I gotta say running outside on fun trails is much more exciting than the treadmill. With this being said I am going to look into other 5k's in the area, before it starts getting to cold. Instead of having a goal of completing the 5k running, I now have a goal of beating my time for the next one. Lucky me even got to speak to my husband this morning after my race, since he just happened to call me right after the race. It was nice hearing from him, since it had been awhile. For those of you that know about his foot he is doing okay. They did take a sample and send it off to Walter Reed for further testing; as of right now it looks like he may have leishmaniasis. This is a bacteria carried by disgusting, contaminated sand flies (which they have over there) and they get into sores. So from a mild spider bite to this infected foot, we are hoping they can figure out what it is before anything too serious comes about. Everything should be fine though. Overall, it was a great morning finished my 5k and got to talk to Christopher. :) The rest of the weekend should be eventful, I have a dinner at my DBO's home tonight, joining some friends to watch the Bengals play tomorrow and then off to see Counting Crows and Maroon 5 tomorrow evening. Fun times.