First Race

This is a little behind as its already Tuesday. Anyway....

I ran in the Nashville Predators "FANGtastic" 5k this weekend. It was a new experience. I posted a time of 26:41. I was pretty happy with this. The course was a bit hilly. I think i could have pushed it a little more however i really didn't know what to expect at all. I didn't train for it specifically and the distance is short compared to my training runs for my half marathon these days. I guess my unofficial goal was made by Don asking me in the locker room what time i was shooting for. I was hit cold by this question as i hadn't thought of it before and my reply after a second or two of thought was "I guess i'd be happy with anything under 27" so goal met haha.

I didn't wear a watch so i had no idea on what time i was makeing. I have yet to decide if wearing one would have helped me or hurt me. I'm leaning more toward that it would have hurt me as i would have had some goal in my head and ran just that fast. I doubt i would have finished in a shorter time had i had one.

After the race we ran over to the sports plex to shower up and blow some time til the hockey game. We ran over to the mall as jessie has been on a mission for a few weeks now of going to sophoria. After that we went to mellow mushroom for some lunch and beers... we then continued the beering at the flying saucer. I forgot to use my free pint coupon for my birthday err. i guess it means i just have to go back. Jessie joined the beer club for the quest of getting ones name on the wall (and you get a free tshirt and other free stuff as you progress).

We put a half attempt into finding a geocache. That didn't happen. haha. On to more beer and then the game.

It was my first pred's game to attend that they actually won. I went to my first one last year followed by a few more. I think that was probably my 6th or 7th game. I'm not running a good streak. Anyway they won in overtime in the shootout. I guess we got our money's worth. It was also jessies day for tshirt collection. She got 2 at the race, one at the flying saucer, and i managed to catch one thrown at the hockey game which i gave to her (it was valentines day, haha)

Its looking like i'll get to run in the rec centers 10k in march. I was supposed to be out of town, but we may be getting back early. So i'll be looking forward to that.