Right now I'm training for my first 5K. It's a charity run for Smith-Magenis Syndrome (for more information, visit http://www.prisms.org/) at our local Buck Creek State Park here in Springfield, Ohio. My goal is just to finish before they turn the race clock off...I know I'm not going to break any land speed records. I have 10 days to go before race day - Saturday, August 25.
I've been training 3-4 times a week on a 1/2 mile loop of sidewalk in our neighborhood. If there are any experienced runners reading this, I'm scared of running in the road and I trip over my feet when I run in the grass, so even though I know concrete sidewalks are hard on your legs...it's just what I do. =)
Tonight, I set a new personal record...10 minutes running without stopping, with 1 minute walking breaks, times 3! The last repeat was hard but not impossible, and in an actual race where I could see the finish line, I think I might have actually had a "finishing kick".
My post-run snack: a sports drink (sugar-free) and an open faced cheese (crumbly cheddar-ish stuff...I can't remember what it's called) and tomato sandwich with fresh tomatoes that someone in my office brought in and left in the mailroom. Yum...
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Thanks for writing this.
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