beautiful view in the parking lot
Saturday I ran a two mile race. The course was the same one as the April 5k, they just bypassed a mile of the course to make it two miles. One benefit was that we ran the half mile long hill in the first mile rather than the second mile. That and not pushing a jogger full of little boys meant I actually ran up the whole hill. In fact, I ran all but two tenths of a mile of the race. The twisty, hilly portion about half a mile before the finish did me in and I had to walk for a bit. It gave me the breather I needed for a strong finish, despite the fact that the finish is uphill.
I can't think of a time I've run a two mile race, other than in high school track my freshman year (the one year I ran track), but that was just horrible and I only did it because I was too slow for any of the other events and no on else was willing to run it. Conversely, two miles on the road was a nice distance- I quite liked it.
This race also had the highest number of jogging strollers I've seen in a race. I almost felt a little left out. Almost, but not quite :) The race was in honor of a local gynecologist who's retiring, so lots of his former patients showed up, with the most recent babies in the strollers. He wasn't our gyno so I didn't realize how big a deal it was. I was just there for the race :)
The conditions were good for running, though a bit colder than I'd anticipated. The forecast called for temps in the 40s or 50s, but it only got up to 37 by the end of the race.
I wore my cool national parks shirt from the NPS 100th birthday race
1st mile: 9:55
2nd mile: 11:00
And if you look below, you'll see that I have almost achieved my goal of running 40 races between my 38th and 40th birthdays. My birthday isn't until June, so I'm way ahead of schedule, but I have plans (of course!) and need to do a post about them soon.
Last Week's Mileage:
Wednesday- walked 3.10 miles on the treadmill
Thursday- hiked 1.17 miles around our property, identifying trees (more to come on that in another post) and moving the stack of wood from our neighbor from the shed to the treehouse where it will eventually be put to use
Saturday- ran 1.97 miles road race
total miles for the week: 6.24 miles + 0 work days since moving the wood took maybe 20 minutes
39th race 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, 1st in age group
|
6.
|
October
|
Kilted Trail 5k
|
5k
|
Kilted race
|
7.
|
November
|
Trail Half
|
13.6 miles
|
Trail Half, last finisher
|
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
|
21.
|
April
|
Evening Run
|
5k
|
Evening run
|
22.
|
May
|
10k Kayak Race
|
10k
|
Kayak race
|
23.
|
May
|
May 5k
|
5k
|
1st of 2 races in same day
|
24.
|
May
|
Evening CC Race
|
5k
|
Evening cross country, 2nd of 2 races in same
day
|
25.
|
June
|
June 5k
|
5k
|
Pushing jogger, 1st of 2 races in same day
|
26.
|
June
|
1 Mile Glow Run
|
1 mile
|
Pushing jogger with both boys, 2nd of 2 races
in same day, glow run
|
27.
|
June
|
Vineyard 5k
|
5k
|
Vineyard run
|
28.
|
July
|
July 5k
|
5k
|
Road race
|
29.
|
August
|
Predict Your Time 5k
|
5k
|
Predict your time
|
30.
|
August
|
August 5k
|
5k
|
Road race
|
31.
|
August
|
NPS 100th Virtual 10k
|
10k
|
Virtual 10k run
|
32.
|
August
|
4 Mile Run
|
4 miles
|
Road race
|
33.
|
September
|
Labor Day 5k
|
5k
|
With all 3 kiddos
|
34.
|
September
|
1 Mile Color Run
|
1 mile
|
Color run, Sunshine’s first solo race, River’s first race
|
35.
|
September
|
3.5 Mile Trail Run
|
3.5 miles
|
Trail run
|
36.
|
October
|
Run Long & Prosper Virtual 5k
|
5k
|
Virtual 5k run
|
37.
|
October
|
Flat Trail 5k
|
5k
|
Travel to race, trail run, ran w/o stopping, 2nd
in age group
|
38.
|
October
|
Halloween Trail 5k
|
5k
|
Trail run, in costume, in a vineyard
|
39.
|
November
|
Two Mile Road Race
|
2 miles
|
2 miles, road race
|
27th race in 2016
Month
|
Event
|
Time
|
|
1.
|
January
|
New
Year’s Day 5k
|
33:01
|
2.
|
February
|
Frostbite
5k
|
37:37
|
3.
|
February
|
Mud
Run
|
1:35:37
|
4.
|
March
|
4k
Walk
|
33:19
|
5.
|
March
|
March
5k
|
33:49
|
6.
|
March
|
Pi
Day Virtual 5k
|
1:01:30
|
7.
|
March
|
Obstacle
Race
|
44:06
|
8.
|
April
|
Glow
Run
|
35:16
|
9.
|
April
|
April
5k
|
41:15
|
10.
|
April
|
Evening
Run
|
34:59
|
11.
|
May
|
May
5k
|
35:18
|
12.
|
May
|
Evening
Cross Country Race
|
43:17
|
13.
|
June
|
June
5k
|
39:21
|
14.
|
June
|
1
Mile Glow Run
|
11:38
|
15.
|
June
|
Vineyard
5k
|
39:10
|
16.
|
July
|
July
5k
|
35:53
|
17.
|
August
|
Predict
Your Time 5k
|
37:41
|
18.
|
August
|
August
5k
|
35:45
|
19.
|
August
|
NPS
100th Virtual 10k
|
1:49:17
|
20.
|
August
|
4
Mile Run
|
45:20
|
21.
|
September
|
Labor
Day 5k
|
46:54
|
22.
|
September
|
1
Mile Color Run
|
18:25
|
23.
|
September
|
3.5
Mile Trail Run
|
41:07
|
24.
|
October
|
Run
Long & Prosper Virtual 5k
|
49:55
|
25.
|
October
|
Flat
Trail 5k
|
33:47
|
26.
|
October
|
Halloween
Trail 5k
|
37:06
|
27.
|
November
|
Two
Mile Road Race
|
20:55
|
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