5k!

u know, my very VERY first race i've done since my modern era (post ls) was the 2005 nike runhitwonder. it was a 5k around the ghettos of la, but i enjoyed the run. i don't even remember how fast i ran it, because it wasn't that important. i stopped by every music stand listening to all these wonderful one hit wonders blasting out their bests. there was even sir mix a lot!

anyways, since then i've run quite a few races, 5k's, 10k's, 5 milers, half marathons and full marathons. and for me time wasn't all that important. especially for the races that were on the longer side (if you've seen my pics from my la marathon outings, you know it's more of a picnic through la than an actual marathon run).

but there have been races where i actually tried to run at a good pace...because they were all very short (5k's). and i think the fastest i've run in one was under 24 mins for the santa monica classics 5000 in 2007.

well...that was 3 years and many more in my knee years ago. anyways, i met up with my accountability brother, brian, last night at the rosebowl. and instead of running the usual outerloop 10k, we decided to run the inner loop twice.

while we were running, we noticed 2 things that differed from running the outerloop - (1) other runners and (2) we weren't talking at all. you see, seeing all these other runners, we naturally started running a lot faster than our usual pace. and since we were running at a faster pace than we were used to, we couldn't even talk

well, i only ran the loop once. after that one loop, i was done. but checking at my watch, i noticed i finished it in 25:27. That's not half bad! that's under 8:30min/mile pace!

anyways, my entire body was burning and aching. but it felt good to know that i could still run a 5k at a brisk pace. well, brisk being relative.

well, as you can guess, we celebrated our run with appeasing our hungry belly monsters at the paseo yardhouse. btw, their spicy tuna roll is the bomb! and so are their roast beef dip sandie!