Saturday, 27 June 2009

• Race Report: Glenda's Glide 5k

  Also know as...my personal worst 5k time!

  Woot!

  I'm blaming that on the two Hs. HEAT and HILLS.

  I don't think I've talked about it on here before, but I absolutely cannot handle heat. Anything above about 70 degrees (for exercise purposes) wrecks havoc on me. I would seriously rather run in a snow storm than in the 81 degree weather we had today. My body just doesn't function normally when its that hot. I'm a big sweater to begin with, but I overheat way too quickly when it's also hot out.

  And now the hills. The race was part of my new town's SummerFest. It wound it's way around a 3.1 mile loop around the 'burbs of the city. And there were tons of hills!

  While I'm doling out the blame, I'm adding another H to the list...Hubby. This was the first race since we've met that he was unable to attend. It's just not the same without him.

  But, I did convince my friend AZ to join me. It was so nice to catch up with her!

  

  Hot and sweaty!

  Other than all those Hs plaguing me, it was a fun race and I'll probably do it again next year.

  And on a side note--I didn't wear my Garmin. He's out of commission right now.

  And after all the complaining, with my time of 33:35 (ouch), I placed third in my age group and scored some new hardware. Amazing. You know it was a small race!

   

  Next race: GFITN 5k next Saturday! Hoping to not score another PW because the heat will only be worse.

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