Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Our First 5-K!
Amanda and I ran our first 5-K race in the Canes Cross Country Classic this past Labor Day. I did some mild training for about a month, and Amanda did next to no training, but she manages a damn gym, so she doesn't need any training. We ran it at a blistering 12 minute mile pace, finishing somewhere around 400th place. My next goal is to run the Gasparilla 5-K in 25 minutes this coming February.
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congrats guys, google tells me a 5k is a little over 3.1 miles... which is what we do with ava on a regular basis :P. call me when you get up to 13.1 ;).
Dammit Eric, I thought our goal was going to be 26 minutes! Nah we'll be good by then, this was my first cross country running experience and I have to say I was hurting... I'm no runner and I'll never claim to be. But we'll get better... maybe not half-marathoners, but better :)
By the way Jae, if you truly needed Google to tell you how long a 5K is I'm afraid I'm going to have to be disappointed in you. lol
Congrats guys...as you you all know...I'm not much of the running type, but I am working on it and will hopefully run a 5k of my own.
I'm not ashamed to admit that I need Google to tell me a lot of things..:)
Actually, they make my paycheck out to both me and Google, so that Google can cash it if I'm out sick or whateva :P
Congrats Eric and Amanda does not matter the pace long as you finished. I have gotten into running myself I just completed a 10K. It was the Nike Human Race they had 26 races all over the world in the same day (claimed 1 Million people running world wide)
I finished with a time of 55 min and finished in the top 25% of the race which I was pretty proud of. It is easier to train for long distance's when you have a girlfriend who ran a marathon and a roommate (Drew) who is a man beast. It was actually fun as odd as that sounds.
My goal is to do another one in less then 50 min and eventually maybe do a half marathon.
PS I am not trying to upstage you (even though I did) I just ran it on Sunday.
PSS My other post had a bad mistake so I figured I would take it away.
Jae you made me laugh out loud, that was awesome. And thank you Nick, I agree... I'd say the initial goal was just to finish and not walk it, which we managed to do. We probably maintained a good 5.5-6.0 mph steady jog with the exception of maybe 400m or so to walk out a cramp or two. Plus like I said, we'll get better :)
Congrats on your 10K though, well done! See everyone in a couple days! Safe travels!
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