What a difference a week makes. Even though it's a week closer to summer, the temperature dropped and it was borderline freezing. That was the unexpected change, today's Susan G. Komen 5K race brought back the emotion that my Marathon lacked last weekend. The excitement, nervousness, adrenaline...okay and hypothermia were all back for this race. Why? Maybe it's all because I knew it would be over so quickly. Maybe it's simply because my body will love me for stopping after three miles. Or maybe it's because this race had some purpose.
I have to be honest, I look damn good in any color! It does however, take a special occasion for me to not only dress in pink, but to make a trip to my favorite running store to specifically buy a female's pink shirt to wear...in public. CT's best friend's mom is fighting breast cancer and this was a special occasion to run to support her. CT's goal for herself was to place in her age group and give her the medal she'd win. After my second 5K last year, I set the goal for myself to place in my age group this year. I definitely wanted to backup CT in her quest, I've never placed, but figured if the two of us were going for it, it would only increase our chances. I know I've improved greatly from last year, but would it be enough?
21:18 a new PR (personal record) for myself! CT also got a PR for herself. When the dust settled, we checked our results to find that CT did in fact get first place in her division and I ended up second in mine. To say we were both ecstatic afterward, probably a bit of an understatement.
The final twist to the story, going to claim our medals, they hand us envelopes. How do they fit a medal in an envelope? Answer, they don't. Turns out the "prize" was a gift certificate. For a fraction of a second, there was some disappointment in both of us to find this out, but that was quickly replaced once we thought about what we accomplished today. Oh....and I was quick to point out, this was our first official payday for racing, we are (PR)o's now!
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