freakishly flexible 5k race report

Hello, hello!

I decided I needed to finally write my race report from this weekend’s “freakishly flexible 5k (fffk)” which was in honor of non runner nancy… who will be having surgery in March.

I don’t really know nancy–even as well as I could know someone from the blogging world–but, I feel so empowered, and THANKFUL that I finally started using my body, that it seemed like a no brainer to offer up a few miles with her on my mind. I’m well enough to run *knock on wood*, and I will not take that for granted.

So, I got to the starting line, after a 6ish minute warm up walk, and a little stretch.

I pressed “start” on my Garmin and took off! I felt really great, and it was such a beautiful day, it didn’t take me very long to get into the swing of things. It helped that earlier that day, I’d taken advantage of the sale on Amazon, and bought No Doubt “Singles” which has some of my favorite old school ND songs (Excuse me Mr., and Spiderwebs to name a couple). I had mapped out a route, and had a pretty good idea of how I was going to be running, but there are a LOT of twists and turns when you’re trying to get 3 miles out of a pretty tiny neighborhood, so I ended up checking the map (which I’d saved to my phone) more than a few times.

I’ve been having a bit of a stitch in my side while running around 2 miles, lately, but it wasn’t too bad, so I didn’t need to stop. I wished I’d had a sip of water around 2.5 miles, but knew I was in the home stretch, so I just kept trucking.

The clock stopped at 35:27!! That is a HUGE improvement from my January 5k time, which was 42:20!!

I’m aware that its a little lame, (and I’m more than a little embarassed at the STUPID look on my freeze-framed face before you click play) but I made a little video after my run, and thought I’d post it.

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In other news, I’ve stayed under my goal calories for the past several days, but I HAVE to confess that I have eaten some real CRAP in those calories. I’m actually eager to wake up tomorrow, so that I can have a wholesome food day. I feel heavy and sticky inside, and its horrible!

Also, the super awesome JoyRuN, got a new belt for Vday, and so, she decided to GIVE away her old, but very gently used belt to the reader who emailed her first.

And it was ME!

First of all, it is so great of her to share the wealth, and gear with someone who loves her blog. Secondly, it is so awesome, because I’ve REALLY been wondering how I was gonna deal with wanting to have some water on runs, but no means to carry it.

So, Thank you, Joy…. So very much.