This race is a free race in Sandy for my cousin's son who died a few years back. He was in high school. There is a balloon send off which was really sweet. His younger brother is now back from a mission and dating a girl--so crazy to see my cousin's boy growing up. I was happy to be there with a lot of cousins and relatives to support Brandon and his family.
I ran this race on my own and I find it easier to run with someone. The last 5k I did was with my running partner, Brittany. She was faster than me and I kept striving to keep up. This was hard to mentally keep pushing myself. Plus the GPS on my phone is not always giving the current speed accurately so I have to go off of how I feel a lot.
My first mile was 6:48 pace. Second mile I never heard the time on my phone but I think it was around 7:15. The third mile, my phone said my pace was 7:06 which would have made my third split 7:15.
6:48
7:15
7:15
1:11 for the final .107
My final overall pace was 7:14.
I was disappointed I didn't beat my PR which was 22:11. And I thought I was the first woman, but I didn't stick around the leaderboard long enough to see how two other women got placed ahead of me. No big deal. I really just wanted to beat my time and I didn't. So I didn't quite feel like the winner I wanted to. :)
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