3rd 5K and I'm Diggin' It!

Good news, Good news, I solved my petrified muscle problem. What? Yes, I did!

Solution? I got up extra early and did a 30 minute Bob Harper workout which warmed up my muscles, even though I had to drive 1.5 hours to my 5K. AND, I bought some new 2150 Asics shoes that I love, love, love.

Result? Great walk/run.... mostlyl walk. I beat my score from 2 weeks ago by 15 minutes. I did not hurt and I promise I did my best.

Twelve of us went to the centennial 5K for Murray Calloway Hospital. I think there were like 350 walker/runners. It was a 5 and 10K. I liked it a lot. We even had four people go with us to take pics and cheer us on. Made me feel like a gazillion pounds of greatness.

What the 5K people did great? Hmmm...well, the shirts were neato and blue. Liked that. The bags didn't really have any goodies in them. They could have just handed us the shirt and said, "Run like the wind, lady!" When we got there, there was water, coffee, fruits and stuff for before run snackage. Liked that. And, the bananas were cold...yes! (Ate one after.)

The start? Well, once again, I heard nothing that the annoucer was saying. I saw later on the video that they prayed and I missed it....I was giggling or doing somehing juvenile I am sure. (I've seen the video.) No one seemed to know which way we were going, so we were lined up in the road...some one way, some another. hahaha.

The bullhorn or whatever that was sounded and off we went. I was faster than the speed of sloth this time. My goal? Well...it was to be the first of the last. You know I made a goal to do one of these things per month. Febrary I came in 180 of 180. In March, I came in 4th from last. And in April...I came in a lot faster. Not great, but was not completely last. :)

Good:

1. Snacks



2. Free SWAG from census people



3. H20 and other beferages



4. Good looking bibs



5. Fast registration check in



6. Live band!



7. Good line up at the end of people saying yay.



8. Signage! Much much better than the last 5K when I had NO IDEA of where to go at times. There were signs where they needed to be...even I could follow.



9. Intersection care: At the last 5K, not every intersection or (going across the street in traffic) had traffic people or cops, but this one did a very good job. I could tell that that the authorities worked well and seem to enjoy the 5K.



10. Handy dandy parking.



11. Could hear the loundspeaker when awards given away. Nice.



12. Great medals....and lots of divisions.



13. Lastly, Very nice route.

Not my favorite stuff:

1. When finishing the race, it was difficult to know where to go...ha. There was a line with orange tape , but 10K people went one way and 5K another and no signs there....and sometimes people or kids were standing in front of the finish coral...where to go? Help!



2. The Murray race in Feb spoiled me to nice happy people yelling, "You can do it!" I love that. :) Maybe I'm just needy. ha.



3. Perhaps I missed the directions at the start, but I just felt sometimes knowing what to do was a bit of a problemo.



4. Women pushing strollers should not be faster than me. I know this isnt the organizer's fault, but this just isn't right. I so should be faster.



5. There were no maps of where we were going that I saw, however, like I said, the signs were good.



6. Not all of the race times were announced with the awards..I just like to hear those.



7. Not nuts about the website, again, the one done by run4another had a great website with good information...liked that.

Overall a great day with awesome weather. I'd do this 5K again.

As for my books: Well, I had some super awesome news today concerning some photos for my cover, but I can't divulge that information as of yet because it's TOP SECRET! ha. Joanne's almost finished with her edit. I'll go through her notes and hand it off to Paul and then viola, press and marketing time. yeah.