Today was a great day. Chris, Erika and I headed off to Toronto Island where we were taking part in the Nike RunTO 10K.
The weather at times was beautiful and at times awful. We arrived early to the island and just enjoyed the festivities that were going on. We took advantage of the free breakfast, listened to the bands and took part in a little light warm up (well most of us Chris was too cool to do it) and then we headed off for the race. We were split into sections to stagger the starts. The horns sounded and off we headed. It was a fun race, there were over 11,000 people there and everyone was wearing bright orange t-shirts.
I was anxious about taking part in this race because of a few factors
1. I haven't really trained as much as I could have
2. I was running on my own (Chris and Erika decided to pace themselves a little more)
3. I really love KFC food and that is a regular in my diet. So I haven't really been eating healthy.
I was quite proud of myself not only for the time that i completed it in but also for the fact that i didn't stop once. I just kept plugging on. I did realise though that I get extra motivation when I run as don't really like people overtaking me, and I like to get back in front of them. Right now as i am writing this I can feel my body getting stiffer. I was going to write gradually getting stiffer but this aint no gradual thing. Oh boy i am going to be sore tomorrow.
And my time: 50 mins 40 seconds.
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3 comments:
Way to go pk! I ran a 10k race over the bluewater bridges in sarnia and I thought I was gonna die.
Hopefully your body isn't failing you after all that running.
Once you do it once you get the feva'...
Glad to see the return of the blog. Oh how I have sat at my computer and waited for you to update.
Congrats on your run. The fact indeed that you are running serves only as evidence as to how much Canada has changed you.
Tim
I can't believe you ran for 50 minutes straight with not a lot of training...very impressive for sure. I'll bet you were sore, but not as sore as I was after playing snatch the bacon.
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