Today was our first run, a nice 5k to start off May. At 9A.M. we arrived at the Indiana University Stadium to get registered and ready to go. My Dad and my Fiance, Ryan, tagged along to watch with coffee's in hand. We can't get them to run quite so early in the morning, or late at night either. It had rained all morning up until 7:30 just before the bikers were scheduled to begin their ride. By the time we arrived it was overcast and chilly but the rain was nonexistent. We lined up at the start line and at 10A.M. we were on our way.
It was a nice out and back run with a water station a mile into the race thanks to the IU woman's basketball team. The first two miles of the race seemed to be basically all up hill the entire way, and slightly never-ending! However by the time we got back around to the last mile and a quarter it was smooth sailing, all downhill. Mom was pushing me to keep going near the end where my shins were spiking up the most, at one point she had to turn around and get me because I had fallen back some 25 feet. In the beginning of the race we said that we started this together and we would finish it together, and that's exactly what we did.
When it came down to the final sprint we kicked it up as fast as we could. In an all out run we picked off three of our competitors! We had nothing left by the end but we did it, we completed our first 5k in just under 36 minutes. An amazing feat in my opinion for two people who hadn't run in years. We didn't come in first by any means, but we never gave up.
Were hoping to run another 5k in about two weeks. With our goal being to finish even faster than before, always pushing ourselves one step farther.
