Skip to main content

Cherry Fest 5K review

Workout: None

This review is going to be BORING.  I went by myself therefore the race was extremely uneventful AND I don't have any pictures.  In fact, I think I will just give the quick cliff notes version to save us all from agony.

Basically, I was really excited.  Physically, I was prepared and in better shape than I have been in a while.  My goal was a 7:40 pace which I thought would be pretty easy.  But, my body just didn't want to do what it was definitely capable of achieving:(((

Mile 1 - 7:44
Mile 2 - 7:57
Mile 3 - 7:48
Mile .???  I don't remember

This was my first time running this race.  I thought overall it was pretty decent.  The community support was amazing, and it was so nice to see so many people outside in their driveways cheering us all on.  Everything was done well, and the race ran smoothly.  The shirts were cool...mine was way too big so Matt gets to enjoy a nice tech tee now!!  The post race treats could have been a little better so that stunk.  And the mile markers were so far off it really irked me.  According to how they had the miles placed I ran a 10:xx mile 2 and a 6:xx mile 3.  Thank goodness I had my Garmin!!  I don't understand how you can be soooo far off with mile placement.  The course was also long which slightly peeved me.

I finished 3.1 on my Garmin in 24:10.  But my official time was 24:40, and I think my Garmin measured 3.16.

Overall  86th our of 445
Female  24th of 226
Age 5th of 44


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

A little mommy rant!

Workout: HIIT download/2mile run Okay moms, I hate being bombarded in every parent's magazine and internet article about all these super star moms.  You know, the moms  that feed their kids organic food, only let their children play educational games, and make their two year old do service projects. You can judge and put your nose up in the air about me, but that is totally okay, because I judge you, too!!!   Seriously, I want to throw my greasy hamburger in their face and tell them to shove it.  My kids are awesome, healthy, happy, and enjoy life.  And I enjoy the things I do being their mom.  It is totally okay to: 1.   let my kids eat McDonald's french fries.  2.   let my children watch cartoons....right smack dab in front of the t.v.  3.  Allow them to drink  a late night polar pop!!  I believe this is Dr. Pepper. 4.  iPad games instead of story time at bed!! I don't care that these things...

Summer Races

Workout:  3 miles easy - 100% humidity and dew point of 76!!  UGH!! Since fall is here in just a few days I thought I should throw my summer races up on the blog while it is still officially summer!!;) I was pumped about my summer races.  I had a good workout plan in my mind, and I was going to break 23 minutes!!  I was so determined!  Well, I thought I was so determined.  But, I guess I wasn't that  determined because things fell apart pretty quick.  There was vacation, and then our cruise, and then traveling up to Illinois.  And although I could have run during all these events, well,  I didn't.  OOPS!! Fisher Fair 5k I ran this race with my brother, and this was his first race in 20 years!!  It was really cool to run it with him, and to see him get back into running.  I actually only ran "with him" for about 7 steps, and then he took off. Mile 1 -7:34  Yeah, way too fast.  I'm actually pretty good a...

Pregnancy, Fitness, and Food

Workout:  None...yet.  But I might later.  Which is what I've been saying everyday for about the past 3 weeks!!! Hey, you all!!!!!  Guess who decided to reappear?!?!  And guess what I've been up to?  Just cooking up a little boy in this belly of mine! So, I'm 30 weeks pregnant, (31 according to the docs, but whatever) and NOTHING has gone as planned.  And when I say NOTHING I am referring to diet and exercise.  First, I had plans of running as long as I could.  My goal was to run to at least 32 - 34 weeks pregnant.  I made it to 6 weeks, folks.    6 WEEKS!!!  Then, the morning sickness hit, and it hit hard!!!!  I was sick all day and all night.  I was so crazy miserable.  And it didn't go away at the end of the first trimester.  It lasted a good 18 weeks!  Once I started feeling better I decided to just work on staying toned.  I was in the gym lifting weights about 3 days a week.  ...