My first 5K race.

As many of you may know, a so called friend of mine (Jody Wrathall) convinced me to sign up for a half marathon that will be held in October. In a moment of weakness I agreed. I started to train for it in February and have been running on a fairly regular basis. I decided that it would be good idea to try and run a couple of shorter races before to measure my progress and get a feel for the whole competition thing. I have not raced competitively since High School. We will not discuss how long ago that was.
Today was my first race in Hermiston. It was a 5K. For those of you who do not speak kilometers, that is 3.1 miles. I prefer to say 5k because it sounds like more. I really only had 3 goals going into the race:

1) Finish under 30 minutes
2) No vomiting
3) No walking-run the whole way.

I have to consider the race a success. I managed to accomplish all 3 goals. My race time was 29:06, I felt like vomiting, but I held it in, I considered walking but there was an old lady(older than me that is) on my tail and there was no way I was going to let her pass me.
It’s time to get serious on the training thing now. My next race will have to be a 10K (7.2 miles). After today I am very aware that I am not even close to ready.

Thanks babe for the new outfit. I look like I know what I am doing.

It's a good thing you can't see my face here. I think I might have been crying.