2 posts tagged “greatest 5k ever”
This year i finished The Greatest 5K Ever in 29:09.
I realize that this year's finish is 5 seconds slower than last year, which marked my "breaking" of the artificial 30-minute barrier. However i do have an excuse in that i ran while pushing Adrian along in a stroller.
Running in the "stroller division," i mistakenly thought that i would have a chance at placing... unfortunately i finished fifth out of six, and the only one i beat was a lady just lazily walked through with a Maclaren. Argh! At least when i try to manually look for my overall place it looks like i'm in the vicinity of 170/296. I guess i'll just have to take comfort in the fact that i still outran almost half of the field while "handicapped." I must admit that i did feel a twinge of schadenfreude whenever i overtook someone.
Anyway, i wasn't really looking to PR, but rather just to gauge my level of readiness for the upcoming half-marathon in two weeks. I guess i'm somewhat fit now, as breaking 30 minutes didn't bring me as close to death's door as it did last year. I still most likely won't reach the magical 2-hour mark, but i will try my darndest to get as close as i can.
I finally broke through my personal glass ceiling by completing The Greatest 5k Ever in less than 30 minutes.
Not that it really means anything in the grand scheme of things. I'll probably never be anything more than an insignificant little gnat to the running world at large, but i must admit that this minor achievement makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I mean that figuratively, as i my butt nearly froze off running in 40-degree weather.
I'd like to finish my next 5k in less than 25:00, but before then i think i'll have to start seriously training for a 10k. For now it's a little too cold to keep running outside, so i think it may be the end of the season for me. Not too shabby for an asthmatic chicken-legged starcraft addict with a dislocatable shoulder.
