{"id":466,"date":"2011-03-07T20:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T03:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=466"},"modified":"2011-05-02T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T05:37:10","slug":"golden-gate-park-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisankevin.com\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gate Park 10k"},"content":{"rendered":"

One month ago I went for a run and, after huffing and puffing up a small hill, I realized something: it had been three months since my last run.\u00a0 I knew that was not the purpose of the months of training and my completing the half-marathon even while sick as a dog<\/a> and so I was determined to not let all of that hard work go to the way-side.\u00a0 I quickly went online and signed up for the Golden Gate Park 10k<\/a> that was coming up in early March and began my training that day.<\/p>\n

With only four weeks to train, I only built back up to running 4 miles so I was a wee bit nervous about completing the 6.2 mile race.\u00a0 But I knew that even if I had to walk across the finish line, I’d finish.\u00a0 My goal was to finish in 1 hour, 20 minutes (13 minute\/mile average).<\/p>\n

The morning of Sunday 3\/6 I woke up early to a nice little rain storm.\u00a0 I wasn’t too nervous since I’ve run in the rain before and I was hoping it’d let up a bit.\u00a0 I showed up to the starting line to register, get my race tag, and warm-up.<\/p>\n

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Still smiling despite the rain! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

Because of the rain, for the half hour before the start time there weren’t many people there.\u00a0 And, since I was running a race that was put on by a local running club<\/a> that was open to the public, the majority of the people there looked like professional runners.\u00a0 I was getting more and more nervous by the minute, afraid that I would get left behind in the dust and be the last person by a long shot to cross the finish line.\u00a0 As the gun went off, all I could think was “Well, here goes nothing”.<\/p>\n

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Warming up<\/em><\/p>\n

The rain was coming down steadily throughout the entire race so, needless to say, my shoes and clothes were soaked!\u00a0 But one advantage of the rain was that I didn’t sweat nearly as much.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Raindrops on the trees<\/em><\/p>\n

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Drizzle over Spreckels Lake<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Towards mile 4 I realized I hadn’t yet taken a walking break so I made a goal to not walk the entire race…and I did it!\u00a0 I was pretty amazed that I didn’t take a single walking break and I still felt pretty good by the time I crossed the finish line.\u00a0 My finish time was 1 hour, 12 minutes (8 minutes faster than my goal!) and I got a nice little ribbon for it.\u00a0 I placed 139 out of the total 158 racers, not too <\/em>shabby.\u00a0 And luckily I wasn’t the youngest person in the group of the slowest 20.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Soaked to the bone!\u00a0 But a happy runner nonetheless<\/em><\/p>\n

I want to sign up for another race in the next couple of months to help keep my running up–who’s with me??\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 I might do the Bay to Breakers 12k<\/a> on May 15th–it’s the centennial for the race so it’ll be quite the show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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