The champions! Dundas had it’s first annual Doggie Dash 5k on Saturday, and Mesa and I couldn’t turn down the opportunity – her first 5k! The organizers of the race did a really great job with the event. They came with a pack of about 5-7 of their own or foster dogs so that people…
New all-time PR – that’s 4 for 4 so far in 2011! Although a little slower than my goal (2.5 seconds off of the stadium record), I’m still very happy with it. It was really windy on Saturday (15mph), and I ran solo from the beginning. The next girl was over 30 seconds behind me,…
Another indoor personal best! To be honest, I was really hoping for something in the 40s, (I think when I set out goals a few months ago, I was hoping to be around 17:45 by this point in time). But, it wasn’t a bad race by any means (very tactful, a lot of women vying…
A 24 second improvement over last week. Yeah! Still not quick, but guess I can’t complain since I’ve only been back running for 4 weeks. It was a lot harder than the last 5k — my legs are a little dead. Last week was 30 miles with 2 days off. This week was 40, with…
Not shabby for having run 15 times in the last 3 months! And won a Birkie entry — guess I’ll be skiing again this winter 🙂
Oh, 5Ks :). They’re so short (and painful!) This was a great race. It was very well organized, a great course (right on for distance!), and really good competition. I wasn’t ready for a race yet, since I’ve only been training for about 2 weeks (and haven’t done a VO2 max workout since mid-May), but…