In honor of my 31st birthday tomorrow and in honor of Adam just being an awesome virtual race director, I ran two 5Ks today. Simultaneously. See, you can do stuff like that when they're virtual races.
Adam, DQ me if you must. I missed your race date by a full day. I had every intetion of doing this yesterday, but after my friend's 40th birthday party Friday night, I was in no shape to run a 5K on Saturday. No shape whatsoever.
So it was today or bust! After church and The Walmart Experience, I was ready to do my thang in my own It's M'Burfday and Adam's Freeze Your Thorns Off virtual 5Ks.
At 3:00 pm with a wind chill of 18, with a t-shirt, an Under Armour hoodie, a pair of Reebok tights and a pair of Under Armour cold gear tights on over those, gloves, and ear warmers, I was off.
Don't I look like I'm ready to freeze something off?
Mile 1: 8:40 pace - "This is awesome! Why don't I run this fast more often?!"
Mile 2: 9:15 - "Ooooh yeah. This is why."
Mile 3: 9:49 - "What kind of idiot puts this kind of hill on the last part of a 5K? Wait a minute, what? I got to pick my own course for this race? Idiot..."
Mile 3.1: 0:53 - *WHEEEEEEEEZE*
Not fast for most, but for me a big PR. I hadn't done a 5K since 3/20/10 with a time of 29:27, so today was a 49-second improvement. I've been saying I want to work on speed this year, and today will serve as my starting point. I have another 5K (a REAL one with ACTUAL REAL, LIVE PEOPLE) coming up on 2/12, so we'll see if I can pick up a few seconds between now and then.
Labels: 5K, birthday, PR, virtual race
