see d run...

this morning, the annual city "turkey trot" 5k became my first race. granted it's more of a fun run, but the winner finished somewhere after sixteen minutes. if you run, you know that's pretty fast! i didn't win. i didn't place. but i surprised myself with a time of 22:09.

of course, since our town is pretty flat, there wasn't much up and down. it was only an elevation change of about 58 feet, but on a graph of the run it looks impressive.


anyway to put this in context, it means that over the 3.1 miles (5 kilometers) i averaged 8.4mph! that's more than a full mph faster than i average on my regular runs. needless to say, i was shocked when i crossed the finish line!


what made it more fun, was that our niece came over to watch the boys, so meemer ran too! or more accurately, it allowed me to run the race too, since meemer was planning on it first. she was much closer to the front of her group with a time of 24:14. she put several more pix on her blog.

http://meemersworld.blogspot.com/

well, i was thrilled, but i was wiped! it took me quite a while to catch my breath. i am still excited, but i'm done for the day! meemer, on the other hand, went out to run another four and a half miles! (she's my hero!)