Our school had its annual 5K run yesterday where students, teachers, staff, and parents enter to either walk the 2.5K or run the 5K. Justin won the race last year in 18:50 while I came in third behind him and a high school freshman boy (but first female) with a time of 21:08. I lost to the boy by only 15 seconds. This year, who knew how much he had improved and if there were others like him. The pressure was on to keep our titles.
The gun went off and immediately, many middle and high school students took off like they were running the 100m dash. Once their sprinter legs wore off after about 200m, Justin quickly moved up to first place and started to pull further and further away from then on. He was in better shape than last year and unchallenged once again. I had my eye on last year's #2 finishers right away. He was ahead of me with one other high school boy, but not by too much. So on I went. With about 1 mile to go, I finally caught up to the two boys; they quickly put in a surge so I couldn't pass them, but that only lasted a few seconds, and there I went right past them. I opened up as much as I could for the remainder of the race, which was mostly downhill, hoping that fresh high school legs would not kick down my "one pace fits all" legs. It was enough, though. I darted to the finish without a fight and crossed #2 in 19:59!
Justin, of course, won the race without any problems. He even took it fairly easy and finished in 18:30. He is pretty happy with the time considering the effort level that he put in, and now he is off for the weekend, completing another bike race. I am extremely excited about my time because it is a huge PPPR (post-partum personal record) for me!
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