Race to the Taste Recap

Race to the Taste 

This weekend started off with a nice and hot 5 mile race at the Porter County Expo Center... A running friend Dan is the director so I really wanted to try out this race since I had never run it before.

I knew before the race even started that I was not going to perform 100%. Having too much fun the night before a run is very ill advised. I had wayyyy too much "fun" the night before. In fact I told many of my friends when I arrived that I was still feeling the effects from this "fun" I had the night before. Which of course made them all laugh as I tend to make people do.

They started the race near the back the Expo Center and we lapped around the Expo center and out on the road near the Expo center.

I quickly hit mile 1 around the 8:30 mark and I thought to myself ok maybe this won't be so bad.

It took me much longer to get to mile two and I knew that this was not going to be a record setting race. Just before the halfway point the sun was beating down on me and my stomach began to grumble. They marked the course to let you know that you were "halfway." Which I thought was really nice since it was mile 2.5... I really was feeling this race at this point. I was also about to die from the water not being cold but warm.

Mile 3 seemed to go by in a blur.... Somewhere between mile 3 and mile 4 I caught up to a runner that I knew pretty well Sylvia. We trucked along together until just final water stop. Once we made it to mile 4 I just kept telling myself one more.. one more...

Just after mile 4 I was just behind a runner named Dawn. She was doing me a favor and wearing really  bright clothes.... I just kept focusing on getting to the end behind her.

With only .40 of a mile to go Dan the race director recognized me and gave me the final push to the end.... you can even see some really scary photos of me by clicking here....

Place	Name	City	Bib No	Age	Overall	Total Time	Pace
1	KELLY COTTON		310	28	35	39:01.1	7:48/M
2	Holly Melton		356	26	36	39:05.7	7:49/M
3	MARIALENA NAGEL		363	29	59	43:32.0	8:42/M
4	Deanna Grimes		328	29	66	44:32.4	8:54/M
5	Marie Fessler		321	29	85	49:13.9	9:51/M

I know I could have done better but I am happy I finished and under the 9min/mile pace. Sometimes you do well sometimes you don't... I am just glad I went to the race and completed it. Plus they had really yummy Clif Carrot cake bars afterward.

What did you do this weekend?