I did a 5K Saturday night and it was so much fun! It was the first time I'd done a race at night (and it was actually a little scary because I had to run without my glasses and couldn't see very well) and it was very festive, and it was also the first time I'd really managed the thing they say to do, where you start out at the back and then pass people. I kept passing people until the end and it felt really good! I was probably still pretty far toward the back of the pack but I couldn't tell because I couldn't see very well! :D They haven't posted the results yet so I don't know what time I got, but I was really happy with how good I felt even at the end, after not doing much running at all over the summer.
Ooh, congratulations on having an enjoyable race. Why did you have to run without your glasses? I could never do that!
I've done an afternoon 5K a few times (they call it "a night at the races" but it's on a summer evening so it's still light out) but never actually at night.
This was a neat thing where they gave us armbands with flashing lights and a lot of people were wearing glowsticks or glow-in-the-dark clothing, and they also had police blocking off traffic, so it wasn't seriously dangerous, there were just some little gaps on the pavement and such that I could've tripped on.
I used to run without my glasses all the time but it was mostly very familiar terrain and during the day. But I broke my glasses last week, snapped them right in half at the bridge. I've ordered new ones (gah, money) and am keeping the old ones together with superglue in the meantime, but they don't stay on very well and I'm worried about them being more fragile, so I left them at home Saturday night.
I almost forgot to pick up my t-shirt at the end because I could not see the t-shirt table! :D
Oh hey the results just went up! I finished in just under 31 minutes and about a third of the way through the pack (there were a lot of people walking). Yay! That is about the same time as the one I did in June. Next one will be better!
I ran a race yesterday, too, where I started out slow, and kept going slow for the first half of the race - but even so, I overtook people right up to the finishing line; great feeling :o)
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I am going to try to do a 10K in early December!
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I've done an afternoon 5K a few times (they call it "a night at the races" but it's on a summer evening so it's still light out) but never actually at night.
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I used to run without my glasses all the time but it was mostly very familiar terrain and during the day. But I broke my glasses last week, snapped them right in half at the bridge. I've ordered new ones (gah, money) and am keeping the old ones together with superglue in the meantime, but they don't stay on very well and I'm worried about them being more fragile, so I left them at home Saturday night.
I almost forgot to pick up my t-shirt at the end because I could not see the t-shirt table! :D
Oh hey the results just went up! I finished in just under 31 minutes and about a third of the way through the pack (there were a lot of people walking). Yay! That is about the same time as the one I did in June. Next one will be better!
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