Nutri-Run 5 mile Road race

I got to "sleep in" this morning until 8am. What a luxury. I never thought there would be a day I would be greatful for such a thing, but the time has come.

We had pancakes for breakfast since it was a race day. I have discovered that even though I expend a lot of energy during a race, I still don't go overboard. And I only had one cup of coffee. Otherwise you feel like you have to pee during the whole race.

I thought I knew how to get to the race start/registration location. I didn't. And we usually have our Tom-Tom GPS in the car, but today we forgot it, and I forgot my cell phone. So after driving around downtown Fort Wayne for a half hour and asking 6 different people directions to no avail, we stopped at the good ol Allen County Library. Love those people. One of the nice ladies that works there printed out mapquest directions for us. So I made it with 2 minutes to spare before the registration closed.

The race started at 11am. This is way past the normal time for Finn to take his nap, so he was a real trooper staying awake to watch mommy run the race. He's such a good boy.
The race route was out in the country a bit. It was real sunny and cool, on the windy side, but not too bad. My plan to run nice and easy in the first mile and 1/2 worked. I really just enjoyed the people I was running with. My pack. You find them naturally. You don't know these people, but you naturally choose each other in a race. You become running comrades...to a point :) This pack becomes your instant support system through a race. I have never talked to any of them until after the races. But there seems to be this unspoken agreement that for at least a good part of the race, this person or persons are going to hang with you. It's pretty cool. Because I didn't spend all my energy at the beginning I had some left at the end of the race. The last mile felt great. My time was 51:24 I came in 8th in my age group. I am very happy with this. My goal was to finish in a hour or more. So 51:24 will do just fine. I feel a lot more prepared for the Crazylegs Classic now.

After the race they had a loaf of bread from Panera for all the finishers and fruit smoothies, bananas and water. Oh! And a commemorative race glass. It was a very good race!