Fourth of July

I am running my second 5K on July 4th, early in the morning, before all of the BBQs and fireworks begin. I somehow convinced my mother-in-law and husband to join me, and we are registering this weekend for it. I may have to convince my handicapped sister-in-law to walk by her mom's side so we can get 5 bucks off for registering as a family. She'd like it, I'm sure. Especially since there is a free t-shirt involved! (Heck, that's why I'M running!)

I'm pretty excited to run another race. I'll be able to see what I can do without the first time race excitement. I hope to beat my time (34:11) and I am pretty confident I will seeing as how the first race I just wanted to finish it alive. Back then I was pretty inconsistent with whether or not I could even finish 3.2 miles. After having run 6 miles (I forgot to post about that!!!) with little to no problems, I am pretty sure this 5K will be easy for me to finish. I'm glad that I can focus on time instead of distance for this race.

I've checked out the course map, but I'm not too familiar with the location where we will be running. It seems like a fairly flat race from what I can tell. The poor 10K runners have to just complete the loop twice..how boring!

After this 5K I'm going to start training for a 10K distances and hopefully I can find a couple races to try before I start school back up in the fall.

I'm so excited!