New Year's Day

I started my New Year off with a freezing run. Several times last night and this morning I wondered if I'd lost a bit of my mind to be considering a run in the freezing rain. But thankfully the temps warmed up a tiny bit and during the race it misted occasionally, but that's it.

This was my first 10k race (6.2 miles) so my dad joked that at least I'd get a PR this time. But wow! It was the hilliest race I've ever run. There were NO straight places until we were within a kilometer of the finish line. It was truly brutal. But despite that I had fun and other than some sore calves from all hills I'm feeling great.

Starting out. Can you see me in the very back (lavender shirt, pink jacket) on the right?

The big camera died before Jon could get any more starting pictures.

But he was able to find the small camera before I came in.

My sweet Dad running the last almost mile to the finish line with me.

(He won first place in his age division.)

Almost finished.

 Not sure why, but I like this picture.

 

My time of 1:08.05 wasn't the greatest, but considering the crazy hills not as bad as I was expecting while running.

Happy New Year!

I'm heading to bed. But I wanted to write just a short post.

2012 has started off with a bang. Actually I think it was a whistle or something.

I ran my 2nd 5K with my dad this afternoon in Mt. Juliet.

Thankfully it started at 1pm since I was up rather late last night cleaning up from a party.

I am ashamed to admit this, but I had only run 3x since the race on Thanksgiving. It was for various reasons, but this meant that I wasn't as prepared for today. One thing I didn't think about was blisters. I get them almost every time I run. It's a side effect of running on my tip toes. I've tried everything and so far nothing has worked. I forgot about this today or would have taped my feet. 

So it turned out that I ran the race slow and ended feeling great except for tons of blisters. I could have pushed myself and had a much better time, but just didn't want to tear my feet up any more.

Waiting on the race to start. Notice anything unusual behind us? This poor man was a bit handicapped, I think. I felt so sorry for him. He started out at the front of the race and did okay for the first 1/2 mile or so. Then he started moaning and limping. He finished a long time after I did (and I'm slow). But at least he had fun before and pushed though.

 I finally noticed Jon was taking pictures.

 I started with a smile. It was mainly because of my large cheering section as I ran past. My kids are loud. =)

 My dad about to cross the finish line. Once again WAY ahead of his daughter.

 My sweet dad walked back to run in with me. Because of the blisters he didn't push me to run faster. But it was still nice to have the company.

 Heading in.

 And over the finish line. My gun time was 33:15 and my chip time (official time) was 33:02.

It isn't great, but at least it is about normal for my running times and next time I'll remember to wrap my toes. Oh yeah, and exercise more. =)

Happy New Year! May this year be wonderful and healthy.