I can't even remember how I found out about this race - likely from a blogger or someone I follow on Twitter and I really wanted to get my racing season started so I was excited to sign up for this race. Colleen, aka The Fit Bee, organized the Fight Forever 5K & 10K Virtual Race. The deal was you can do it either Saturday, March 31 or Sunday April 1 and then report your time back to the organizer. Apparently we were also supposed to take photos but I forgot so we are picture-less.
As you may know I am training to run my first 5K which is one of my 2012 goals. I'm a little over half way through my training plan that I got from an app on my phone called Learn 2 Run. Today's run consisted of the following:
Warm-Up: 5 minutes
Run: 4 minutes
Walk: 2 minutes
Run: 5 minutes
Walk: 2 minutes
Run: 5 minutes
Walk: 2 minutes
Run: 4 minutes
Cool-Down: 5 minutes
We decided to cover 4 total miles so our cool was really about 1.5 miles long. Other than my weekly walk with Dan and both dogs I'd never had a work out partner. This definitely made things fun and we were even able to chat a little while we ran, albeit in short bursts, because we decided to leave headphones at home. I felt really good while we were out even though my hands were freezing. This spring mid-west weather is not easy to dress appropriately for because I wished I had worn gloves when we left but once we were into the second interval I was pretty much ok. My legs felt good the whole time so I was a happy runner!
Our finish time was 47:18 which was pretty good. Slightly faster than finish times from last year and definitely a time to build on. Jen and I are running the Egg Shell Shuffle on Saturday and we've already worked out our running strategy so hopefully that will yield an even faster time!!
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