Race Judicata - 5K

Today's 4th running of Race Judicata 5K is special to me because I met John at the race 3 years ago. My version of the story is I was waiting for my age group medal, made conversation with someone, nice to meet you and I was on my way. Later that night I received an email from John after he realized I was older than I looked.  His version is I searched him out with a pork chop look and he followed up on that.  Regardless, he had to do some hunting on the internet to find me.  It was either creepy or meant to be.  3 years later I'd say it was meant to be.

RACE HIGHS

• This is a great race because all John and our lawyer friends are there. 
• I did get two medals one for winning my age group and the other for 2nd female
• I did run faster than my previous 5K's this summer.

RACE LOWS

• At the beginning of summer I wanted to get a PR again at this race (I did great last year) but I'm no where close to where I want to be running. My legs don't remember how to go fast. 

RACE STATS

• 23:15 
• Splits 7:18, 7:25, 7:23
• 2nd female overall; 1st in my age group

GOALS

• Last night I wanted my first mile to be in the 7-7:10 range.  I knew I couldn't maintain it but wanted to run a fast mile and then keep pushing myself. I revised it to 7:15 at the start of the race because I wanted something more realistic. I didn't hit my goals.

MENTAL GAME

• I told myself to push it. Try and get out of my comfort zone.

FUN MOMENTS

• The friends are ruthless to each other and who gets a medal and who doesn't. 
• In my goody bag was the t-shirt, a flashlight (only one of our bags had one), pen, golf tees (the lawyers love to golf I guess), mirror and sticky notes. That's pretty good for a 5K.

Happy Running!