Tuesday, April 26, 2016

April 5k Recap

my running partners

Friday and Saturday were a first for me: I ran two 5ks in 12 hours. After running the glow run Friday night, I turned around and ran another 5k Saturday morning. I ran this race last year while pregnant with Ocean and pushing River in the jogger. This year I pushed both boys in the jogger while Sunshine had an early morning playdate. It's the first time I ran a race pushing the jogger since last May, and it was the first time pushing both boys in the jogger.

Since Ocean is hiding in the back, spectators didn't see him until I ran past them. At that point, several of them awarded me "double extra bonus points" for pushing two boys instead of the just one. Two other strollers finished before me, but they each only had one kiddo. So I won the double jogger division :) too bad that wasn't an actual division....

I ran 3.08 miles in 41:15, which is just slightly slower than last year's 40:05.
1st mile: 11:46
2nd mile: 14:31
3rd mile: 14:09

The last half of the race has multiple hills and I barely made it up the last one. I had to work so hard to push close to a hundred pounds of little boys and jogger up the steepest hill of the race. At least the half mile long hill earlier in the race wasn't nearly as steep. Not that that one was easy, either. Regardless of steepness and length, I walked up all the hills, which is evident in my split times.

Running two 5ks so close together was tiring. Because of travel times I didn't get a good nights sleep Friday night, though Ocean contributed to that by waking up to eat before my alarm went off. So I started off tired and my muscles were still fatigued from Friday's 5k. Despite that, I didn't feel horrible while running. I've definitely felt worse while running races. Pushing the boys added to the challenge of the hills, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I rather enjoy the challenge.

Last week I went on one hike and completed two 5ks. The week before I completed one treadmill workout before we headed out of town for our road trip. Things are settling down a smidge so I'm hoping to be more consistent with my workouts, though I've said that before without actually managing to be more consistent.

In other news, this race marks the half way point of my 40 by 40 goal. It's the 20th race out of 40 I plan on completing, and I'm two months ahead of schedule. Yay me!

9 Races in 2016


Month
Event
Time
January
New Year’s Day 5k
33:01
February
Frostbite 5k
37:37
February
Mud Run
1:35:37
March
4k Walk
33:19
March
March 5k
33:49
March
Pi Day Virtual 5k
1:01:30
March
Obstacle Race
44:06
April
Glow Run
35:16
April
April 5k
41:15












20 Races Towards my 40 by 40 Goal



Date
Event
Distance
Event Type
1.
July 2015
4th of July 5k
5k
Pregnant
2.
August
4 Mile Fun Run
4 miles
Road Race
3.
September
All Terrain
5k
Mixed surface
4.
October
Hill Valley Half
13.1 miles
Virtual half marathon
5.
October
Corn Maze 5k
5k
Corn Maze
6.
October
Kilted Trail 5k
5k
Kilted race
7.
November
Trail Half
13.6 miles
Trail Half
8.
November
Turkey Trot
5k
Road Race
9.
December
Veteran’s 5k
5k
Mixed surface
10.
December
Army Virtual Marathon
26.23 miles
Virtual marathon
11.
January 2016
New Year’s Day 5k
5k
Road race
12.
February
Frostbite 5k
5k
Cross country race
13.
February
Mud Run
4.8 miles
Mud run
14.
March
4k Walk
4k
Walk
15.
March
March 5k
5k
Road race
16.
March
Pi Day Virtual 5k
5k
Virtual 5k Walk
17.
March
10 mile race
Not applicable
Water stop volunteer
18.
March
Obstacle Race
5k
Obstacle run
19.
April
Glow Run
5k
Glow Run, 1st of 2 races in 12 hours
20.
April
April 5k
5k
Pushing jogger, 2nd of 2 races in 12 hours

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