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Another 5k Ran :)

September 1st, 2008 at 03:58 pm

My sidebar is updated Smile I added a page for September to track my savings and extra monies. Smile I am not including my income from Cha Cha or the gym until I actually receive payments.
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This morning I ran my second 5k race. Going into it I wasn't expecting great things because I felt like I hadn't been training like I needed to.

Well! Guess what? I BEAT MY TIME! Woo Hoo!

This particular race didn't use the timing chips, so I'm not sure of what my *exact* time was - - but as I passed the finish line the clock read 43:00!! I started near the middle of the crowd, so I probably could subtract a few seconds. Even so, that is an improvement of at least 37 seconds!

One kind of downer though. Most of the second half of the race there was this older lady who I kept trading places with - she'd run ahead of me a bit while I was walking, then I'd run ahead of her a bit while she was walking, etc. We both reached the 3 mile marker at the same time and agreed to run it the rest of the way together.

I wasn't able to run it the whole way because the first part of it was over dirt with lots of tree roots. I figured rubbery legs + tree roots = possible injury. Once I got to the section which was just dirt, I ran again. The older lady ran the whole way.

She made it across the finish line about 15 seconds before I did. I'd finished and drunk a couple cups of water (and my dad had finished the end of the race video) when we noticed someone laying on the ground being fanned. A few minutes later, paramedics came and put her on a stretcher.

It was that same lady I had ran to the finish line with. Frown The ambulance stayed at the lake, so she probably was okay. Just kind of a bummer to see someone you sort of ran with go down like that.

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In other news, I've now made nearly $16 with ChaCha now. It really is kind of fun and easy.

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Saturday night I took my mom and stepdad to a local baseball team's game. I'd gotten the tickets for free from my company. The tickets included free food and parking. We all ate way too much - but had a great time. Smile

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Today was probably the last time I'll see my dad until at least Christmas. A week from tomorrow he will be heading out to CA next Tuesday. So now it's just my mom and I left here in Texas.

6 Responses to “Another 5k Ran :)”

  1. compulsive debtor Says:
    1220292298

    Congrats on beating your previous time, Laura!

  2. frugaltexan75 Says:
    1220296036

    Thanks CD!

  3. baselle Says:
    1220309499

    Congrats with your time. Hopefully your racing companion just got a touch of heat stroke.

  4. frugaltexan75 Says:
    1220310388

    Thanks baselle. I think that probably was all it was, since the ambulance didn't take her away.

  5. mom-from-missouri Says:
    1220325513

    Silly question, but do these races go in a circle?? do you end where you start?? If not, how do you get back to where you parked?? I always wondered that.....

  6. frugaltexan75 Says:
    1220353702

    mom-from-mo,

    Yes, they generally do go in a circle of sorts. Not a perfect circle, but they have you go to a halfway point then turn around and run back generally the same way you started (although with this one we ended in a slightly different place, but still in the general area where we started.)

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