Race #3

When my alarm went off at 5:30am this morning I thought to myself... Why in the world did I pick a race on day light savings. It was really only 4:30am. After getting out the door, I felt a little more awake and excited to meet up with my friend Jaimee and run another 5k race. Jaimee did the half marathon!


A 5k is 3.1 miles, so I was prepared to run 3.1 miles. That did not end up happening. Usually, there is a turn around point half way into the run where you head back to the finish line. I felt like I was running a really long time and still hadn't turned around. I finally looked at my garmin watch and saw that it said 2.5 miles. I asked a volunteer if there was a turn around and she says, "Oh... there is, but it isn't marked." No way! So now I had to turn around and run another 2.5 miles back to the finish line, which meant I did not run 3.1 miles I ran 5.

At first, I was pretty irritated. People were getting so mad and dropping Fbombs the whole run back. The same thing happened to the 10k runners. There were 100s of participants, so a lot of unhappy runners.

All things happen for a reason. I don't think I would have pushed myself otherwise to run 5 miles. A 10k is 6.2 miles. Maybe I can push myself a little more to do a 10k for race #4.

Overall, it was a fun morning and couldn't have been more beautiful running through Vasona Park in Los Gatos.