This course is flat and is an easy one to run; also, the roads are good to run on. As I neared the first mile, I realized that my right knee was going to make me walk as it was hurting. I had stayed off of it the past two days hoping that would help. Oddly, my knee never hurts when I'm not running; it will swell [and it has been] but it doesn't really hurt. I finished my first mile running and proceeded to take the pressure off my knee by walking some. Unfortunately, I had to walk a good bit of the race. Running short stints followed by walking was the way it went. Oh, well...what can you say. I finished and don't feel like I damaged or hurt my knee further. Will ice it and wrap it the next few days.
After running Lulu's 10k last Sunday, I knew my knee was going to give me problems. So, I walked 5 miles Monday and Tuesday in my neighborhood. The weather prevented me from getting outside some but was okay with that since I had walked some...all the time thinking the 5k coming up wouldn't be affected. Well, that just wasn't the case. I had not run any since last Sunday's race!
I am proud of my fellow runners for securing good race times. Mo won Sr. Grand Master and Irene got first place in her age group. They are both getting stronger and stronger. Jane also received first place in her age group as walker. Congrats, ladies!!
Kent finished first place in his age group as well. He received a nice cap, large plastic bottle with straw and a $10 Circle K card.
When we crossed the Finish Line, there were bottles of water, oranges, different flavors of Danishes and different flavors of bagels. THEN...we crossed the street where the real post race event was and boy was it something else!! Not only did they have many, many different drinks to choose from [as well as a high-end chocolate milk] but they had red beans and rice and many kinds of Subway sandwiches. Also, on the tables were different kinds of jerky, large chocolate and M&M cookies, more Danishes, gummy worms and gummy bears, packages of trail mix and a cooler full of 4 different high-end ice cream bars on a stick. There was a double peanut butter, Thin Mint sandwich, cherry covered chocolate and another kind that slips my mind right now. There were so much, I'm sure I left out something.
I was going to share a picture of what we got in our swag bags, then another of what we got at the post race but when I laid it out on the bed, it was so enormous, I figured I'd include it all. They even gave us a large canvas tote and were giving out extra race shirts. These were tech and we definitely got another one...yippie! The first pic is of everything followed by close up's in four pictures. Here goes:
Can you believe all of this?? Oh, and I forgot to mention that we were given free Florida lottery tickets every time we went in and out of the area. How cool?? Well, all I can say is that it made my bad race feel real good afterward, ha!
Hope you've had a good run today or better yet a good race...after all, no race or run is bad unless you don't do it. Keep up the good work and I'll see you later when I will
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