Hello Friends!
Alyssa, I’m glad to hear your toe is better! And everyone else, I hope you’re beating those colds and the fall weather blues.
I’ve been doing just some short stints lately on the treadmill, similar to what I wrote on the 7th. My friend Katy and I ran in the Autumn Leaves 10K on Saturday. We lucked out with beautiful weather! The course was pretty flat and on concrete for the first 4.8 miles, then the next mile and a half were on a backwoods dirt path. I stayed pretty slow for the first 5 miles, and ran about 11 min/mile, then the last 1.2 miles I ran in 9:20. Definitely not my best time ever for a 10K, but it felt great to just get out there and run some longer mileage.
We are running in a 5K on December 7th in Portland - the Jingle Bell 5K. Should be a pretty flat and fast course, I’m looking forward to it.
Misty, you asked about other races this spring. One of my favorites is the Shamrock Run in downtown Portland (the last few years it has started and ended on Naito). They have a 1K run for kids, a 3.5 mile fitness walk, a 5K run, an 8K run, and a 15K run. If we register 4 or more people together as a group, we get a $4 discount per person ($25 each) on registration, so let me know if you’re interested!
Good luck out there, guys!
Kitri