To run

Yesterday evening I completed my first road race in seven years. I started small with a 5K race. It was amazing and I felt wonderful. I had been training for a couple of months but I had not been on the road as often as would have liked. Most of my training was done on a treadmill indoors. I wasn't sure how it would go yesterday as I was feeling rather drained.

My family and several of my friends came out to support me. It was great to have a friend meet me along the race and run with me for a short stretch. When I was close to the finish line I saw the rest of my friends and my family. The twins wanted to run to the finish line with me. So they joined me and ran hard to the finish line. We crossed the finish line in 39 minutes (which I understand that to many people is a long time for 5K but for me it was my best time).

The last time I ran was 7 years ago. At that time it had already taken me a couple of years to warm up to the idea that I could even do it. I never felt that I could be a runner since my experience had been that I could only run a block or so. In talking to a co-worker about her running I became confident that I could do this. I joined a running club and after a session I ran my first race. Shortly thereafter I ran my next race. At that point I was already pregnant and had doctors orders to stop running. That was the last race I ran.

I am so glad to have started back on the running path again. My kids have become so excited about the idea that they want to run a race themselves.

Bring on the next race!