Over the summer I worked out with a personal trainer and during that time I got the crazy idea to run a 5K. I dont know where this inspiration came from since the last time I had ran was in high school on the rare day my swim coach would had a run to our workout. Since I was in a time of trying to challenge myself, I decided there wasnt a better way to be challenged physically. In October I met up with the RockHarbor running group with my friend Karissa. It was a 3 mile run and I never thought that I would finish! But it got me ready to start training for my race. On Halloween I signed up for the San Dimas Turkey Trot, found an 8 week training schedule and started running.
Luckily my mom took pictures as she waited for me!
My training schedule started with a 1.5 mile run and went up to 3 miles by the race over Thanksgiving morning.
My lovely mama graciously got up at the crack of dawn with me to get to the race which luckily was only a 5 minute drive from my parents house.
As I checked in for the race, I ran into an old friend, Briana! I went to graduate school with her sister Yvania and knew their whole family when I was a lifeguard at the Via Verde Country Club, I even taught their little sister how to swim! It was fun to hear her experience with 5Ks and to know I had a friend in the crowd. My mom and I even saw the Priest from the Catholic church that I grew up in. Definetely didn't expect to see him!
The race started and I felt good, until I realized that the race was going to be all about hills and I had trained in the City of Orange that has little to no hills or even incline!!!
Luckily since the race took us all around Puddingstone Lake in Bonelli Park, there were some incredible views. I wish I was able to have my camera with me because they were picture worthy!
Luckily my mom took pictures as she waited for me!
Finally, I could see the finish line and tried to get there as quickly as possible. My time was around 45 minutes and I was aiming for 35 minutes. I felt okay about it since my training time had been on flat land and the race was all hills.
Overall, I am so glad that I was able to do this and I was able to cross something off of my list of things to do by the end of 2010! Now it is time to decide if I was going to do another one!!!
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