Yesterday afternoon, I did a walk around the neighborhood. I walked at a very easy pace, since I didn't want to get too sweaty. I walked 2.76 mi in 52:06.
I was out running this morning just to get some exercise in. Like yesterday, I ran down Lakeshore Drive toward Lake St. Clair. Well, it turns out that there were some races happening, run by the local Rotary Club. There was a 5K and 10K race. So I ran to the start to see if I could do the 5K race. I had run about 2.1 mi in 24:26 to get to the race start.
The race director very generously let me run the race and pay for it later, since I didn't have any money on me. The race started at 9:00am, about 15 minutes after I registered. I decided to really run it and see how well I could do. I crossed the finish line in 27:06, which is a new personal record for me! I haven't gotten my chip time results, but it shouldn't be too different.
This was really great, because I really wasn't prepared for a race. It was rainy and wet. I had already run over 2 miles to get there, and had run about 5 mi each of the previous two days. I hadn't eaten breakfast. So with all that, it was really cool to run the race so well. My average speed was about 6.9 mph, which is the speed at which I had run my intervals on Thursday. The race definitely felt hard, and I definitely slowed down in the last mile, but I managed to keep going fast enough to get the PR.
EDIT: I got the official results. My time was 27:05, which I'm very happy with, but is not necessarily that fast. However, I placed really well. I was 37th out of 170 runners. I was 8th out of 89 women runners, and 1st in the 40-year-old women's age group! Pretty cool! I would've gotten a medal for my age group win, if I'd stuck around, but I didn't. I really didn't expect to do that well. It's a good thing I didn't run the 10K, because it was really fast; even if I'd hit my new PR goal time of 55:00, I would've barely been in the top half. There were only about 110 runners in that race.
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