A Year to the Date

I can no longer use the excuse that I haven't even been running for a year yet. This weekend marked the one year anniversary of running my first 5K. It would have been fitting to run the same race again, unfortunately, that race didn't take place this year. Who would have thought my running career lasted longer than the first race I picked? Certainly not me or anybody with betting money in their pocket. Speaking of things that you wouldn't predict, how about getting company sponsored for running? It's official, not only has it been a year, but I can now casual boast "Yeah, I've got corporate sponsorship". I'll try to hide the fact it's my own company and it probably won't happen again, but it's still cool to say, not to mention the shirts to go with. Now....if I could just find somebody who is gullible enough to believe it!

This week was a crazy week. Total, it felt like there were four seconds of free time. I'm hoping that this will be the last week like this one for a very long time. Through all the events, it worked out that my long run for the week took place on Thursday. Normally, I like to have two days to recover after doing a long run, not necessary with no running, but certainly not a race schedule for day two, but that's what had to happen this week. Doing a short warm up run before the race, I could feel plenty of muscles working when it's normally they just work behind the scenes. This could be ugly! This course had more damn corners, this is one time where I'm glad people were ahead of me, otherwise I would have got lost.

Stressful week, tight legs, a year to the date, I ended up 1st in my group (with no asterisk this time). Perfect Anniversary to my first race. Oh, somebody else got first in her division too.