- I finished 57th out of 599 participants
- 8th out of total females
- AND FIRST IN MY CATEGORY!!!!
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| Here I am near the finish line. |
It was such an amazing feeling looking at the website the next day and seeing my name FIRST!
This was a smaller race so only the male and female winners got medals. But, heck, I don't care!
Winning my category was MY medal!
RACE RECAP
It was a trail run. I didn't even realize I had signed up for a trail run until I went to pick up my race pack on Friday. I was mildly curious about it. But since it was only a 5K I was not too concerned.
I woke up on Saturday excited and ready to see what the course looked like. The only bad news is that it was so cold.
I feel like it was colder than the half-marathon. That makes sense because we are now in the second half of December.
We got there an hour early to find parking and pick up my chip. It was old-school this time.
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| Here I am picking up my chip. |
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| The typical shoe chip that you have to give back. |
No high-tech technology like the half-marathon. But hey, it was a 5K and it only cost me $20! I wasn't complaining!
Before my race there was 1 mile "fun run" for little kids and their families.
It was cute. There were tons of little munchkins, and a few tears, but everyone finished the race.
My race started a half hour later at 9am. There were about 599 participants in the timed 5K.
I placed myself at the front this time. I had no plans to run a PR or anything. It was all in good fun. The trail was not as scary as I expected. I had to run through quite a bit of mud and leaves but it was OK.
I had fun and even got a yummy candy cane at the end!
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| I gave it to my niece because I don't eat candy canes. |
The food after the event was good too. They had bananas, oranges, whole wheat bread and tons of yummy types of bagels. It was great. After the half-marathon I could only eat a banana because the other options were pizza and beer!
All in all it was great. (I said that already didn't I?)
I saw tons of elves like promised.
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| Ok, clearly not elves but festive! |
DJs and cheerleaders. If you look to the left you can see some pre-teens with pom poms.
An old man with no shirt on in 30 degree Fahrenheit weather.
Beautiful views
And most importantly: camaraderie
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| The woman in blue was super fast! The tall elf to the right finished second. |
I'm definitely a fan of community races.
This was my last race before my marathon next year. I definitely ended the year on a high note!
